distinguishing variation

there is of course always
first and foremost
Beauty,

appreciable to most any of those

strange head-scratching primates

with all of their wild gesticu- and articu-lations,

all their maladapted incarnations

be they

seer,
soothsayer,
shaman,
lunatic,
fool

singer,
poet,
prophet,
priestess,
puppet,
idol

chic swallowing public,
workaday tool,
a socket of modular sophistication;
normal wooer of Beauty

average seeker of cool.

high primates are highly susceptible to Her

though their expressions of appreciation will differ
the opposable thumb will likely figure prominantly

all those head-scratching opposable primates, though,

know, that every one of them will return to the soil
as will every object of their reverence
every idol of their toil

yet usually,
they salve that knowledge, striving after Her anyway