Almost Home: Thinking Sense

Wren Spardello
What could be more objective then
Different populations classified together:
By lumpers against us ‘splitters’
These “populations” consist of breeding males and breasted females
But for humans like me those characteristics are arbitrary
Disproportionately represented
And presents problems of hierarchy
Invoked to justify political and socio economic discrimination
Which type you are is a matter of personal preference
Science often violates simple common sense
For egotistical motive and inordinate interest
Unfortunate enough to turn white
No function at all
Humans, animals, and plants are more alike
Many loops, that tend to assume shape
( They just didn’t)
A supposed function to
Not all effects of natural selection are…
“ We all know that we find some individuals of the opposite sex more attractive than other
individuals”.
Then I am not human.
My nipple color, breast shape, and large buttocks to be covered up with
White winter fur
And ultraviolet sunshine
Sickle shape
An enhanced survival
Statements from Changing Faces Of Anthropology: the chapter Race Without Color.
A native Rhode Islander, while residing in a southern state, writes folk punk country style stuff about how they feel trapped within the whole country and life itself using an acoustic guitar lit alight by fireflies and cell phone glows. As both a human becoming increasingly defined by work, isolation, and overly emotional detachment and as a bird longing to fly with the others while being left wingless, Wren Spardello tries to learn how to navigate a body and a society alike that is constantly fighting them to try come up with a way that they can reach the sky again. Wanna fly too?

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