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Isn’t it a funny thing,
The brain?
It’s the only thing that keeps
Me sane.

The neurons scattered
Across my grey matter
Process all the data
I encounter as I saunter.

I was born to think,
And thinking is the link
Twixt taking in impressions
And making decisions.

Natural selection
Made grey matter better
At attempting to
Decipher all the chatter,

And the smells and sights
And pick out the highlights
That might give me insights
That help me figure out how I can put the world to rights.

Mine’s a fine brain,
And so is yo-ho-hoors.
It’s bigger than
A dinosaur-hau-haurs.

But like every brain
Our brain’s trained to maintain
The body’s vital systems.
If they broke you’d miss them.

And, or so we’re told,
In these cerebral folds
You’ll find, amongst the mess,
The seat of consciousness.

Natural selection
Has no set direction
But in our case it has
Added on a section

Called the neocortex
Where our complex thought gets
Made, weighed and conveyed
So unmistakeably primate behaviour is displayed

Mine’s an ape brain,
Cos I’m an a-ha-hape,
Which accounts for
My apey sha-ha-hape.

It evolved to solve
The problems that involved
Subsisting in a social
System that revolved

Around the shifting
Seasonal demands
Of hunting, fishing, sprinting,
Picking and preparing plants.

Natural selection
Is now playing catch-up
With this messed-up modern
World that we have dished up.

Maybe that’s why some
World leaders seem so dumb
When they like us are blessed
With what are thought the best
Brains in the animal kingdom.

Isn’t it a funny thing, the brain?

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from Ensonglopedia of the Human, released July 18, 2021

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