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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=545991" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Available Entertainment Here in Animal Land!</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=545991" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">There are things we can do here <br>That we cannot do in the AfterLife. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=545991" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">That is because these are 'animal behaviors' <br>That are driven, unbeknownst to us <br>By animal drives. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=545991" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Let's take a look, <br>(Discern the drives that we obey) : </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=545991" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">There's hunting, for the males, <br>And fighting the competition: <br>We are busy 'bringing home the bacon' <br>And besting our enemies, <br>Who'd love to take our territory. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=545991" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">To keep our energy high, when no enemy face is seen, <br>We've sports to do or cheer for <br>(All those feelings have to go somewhere) . </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=545991" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">For the ladies? <br>Shopping.....a 'discerning' kind of shopping, <br>Sops up some of that 'gathering' instinct. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=545991" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Then both genders feel a need to advertise <br>Their charms to the opposite sex. <br>This keeps hair salons in business. <br>Fancy cars that are faster than speed limits allow <br>..Make a good piece of boasting... <br>...Showing off..... to catch female eyes. <br>The ladies have little choice, <br>Driven by barely heard whispers inside, <br>But to take notice of the 'bad boys' <br>Who seem to have those <br>High status genes. <br>And the males will be noticing waist hip proportions, as <br>Females who die in childbirth don't <br>Add to progeny number count. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=545991" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Then, courting will coat the minds of <br>All concerned <br>With honey, hard to see beyond. <br>Then the ladies will fall for the big-eyed <br>Helplessly wobbly babies that result, <br>And the men will have proved potency <br>And may take some pleasure in this, until <br>A personal relationship has a chance to <br>Form. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=545991" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">And both genders will <br>Dance, <br>And both genders will<br>Leap, and <br>Run, <br>As mammal's bodies were built <br>To do. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=545991" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">These are the things we won't easily do <br>In the AfterLife. <br>This is what entranced us.... <br>This, the appeal <br>Of Animal Land! </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=545991" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Of course, we are made of much more than this. <br>We have other drives, <br>(Many of us) <br>And we can express much of these here <br>(Perhaps perfect them later in <br>AfterLife's astral planes) : </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=545991" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">We react to the arts. <br>We organize, create systems. <br>We Invent. <br>We even try to nurture and heal <br>Those who are not family, <br>Those who are as 'strangers in a strange land.' </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=545991" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">These drives will seem even more compelling<br>when we're without our <br>Flesh bodies; <br>They are 'of the mind' <br>And mind is less encumbered in the <br>AfterLife. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=545991" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">The arts and the sciences<br>Will be seen as having greater urgency<br>By those who are dis-incarnate.<br>They will move heaven and earth<br>To reach those of like mind<br>Still embodied.... <br>....'Channeling' ideas to <br>Us, here in Animal Land, <br>(They want these ideas <br>To be put to good use) . <br>Ego satisfaction's <br>But a thin gruel there, <br>As we take all the credit.....<br>....Here it's our favorite pig roast! </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=545991" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Everyone is different. <br>Some adore Animal Land. <br>Others try to recreate wisdoms <br>They developed in the AfterLife <br>(Before they came to 'try again') . </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=545991" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Try again? </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=545991" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Try what again? </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=545991" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Well, <br>How to be full of Animal Land drives, <br>Yet learn to 'harness' <br>Not be run away with! </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=545991" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">We're all Charioteers-in-Training! <br>With many wild, wild horses to train. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=545991" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Yet there is nothing more glorious, <br>On Earth or in Heaven, <br>Than the human who can race these trained horses..... <br>Horses who've learned to run.... <br>(Cooperating with the driver....) <br>Horses that have learned <br>Also.... <br>The willingness <br>To slow down, <br>....To a quiet stop. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=545991" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">With 'run'' and 'halt' an equal joy <br>One is finally <br>The Player Of The Game, <br>No longer a plaything, <br>A prey thing <br>Of Animal drives. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=545991" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">And this is the Ph.D thesis, <br>The graduation requirement, <br>For our advanced students <br>Here, <br>In Animal Land</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=Jan+Freundschuh">Jan Freundschuh</a></strong></div>