04-21-2017, 04:44 PM
Jane
Sometimes you have to hide
to save your life. Instinctive
or instinctual? Isn’t that what
we’ve been talking about?
Yes I hid in the jungle, yes
I knew the names of all the chimps
through lines and generations but
the students and the PhD candidate -
I couldn’t think of theirs.
What would you have done?
We all survived. Ransomed
for half a million dollars, they
returned to Harvard, went home
with stories of mud huts and torture,
not much about chimpanzees.
I left my farm in Africa.
The seaside sounds nice.
Sometimes you have to hide
to save your life. Instinctive
or instinctual? Isn’t that what
we’ve been talking about?
Yes I hid in the jungle, yes
I knew the names of all the chimps
through lines and generations but
the students and the PhD candidate -
I couldn’t think of theirs.
What would you have done?
We all survived. Ransomed
for half a million dollars, they
returned to Harvard, went home
with stories of mud huts and torture,
not much about chimpanzees.
I left my farm in Africa.
The seaside sounds nice.