Killing the Ape by Russell Edson




For me, the most lucid explanation of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution comes from this Russell Edson prose poem:

KILLING THE APE
They were killing the ape with infinite care; not too much or it runs past dying and is born again.
Too little delivers a sick old man covered with fur.
. . . Gently gently out of hell, the ape climbing out of the ape.

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