Somewhere Between Here and There
Old Jake over there is
a perfect product?
One of the instant folks
made on a Saturday night
before quitting time.
Truly a Saturday Night Special.
Or perhaps the end product of a million 5
years of development.
The last link in a development chain.
The long sought perfect prototype.
From here on humans are to be
the Old Jake model?
Maybe it is time for a recall.
Old Jake has some major faults.
He is still easily convinced
of evil in others and never in himself.
He is ambivalent as hero
or coward.
Old Jake has never found
the balance between
greed and generosity.
Between love and hate.
Between reason and emotion.
Between strength and weakness.
Between poverty and wealth.
Between friend and foe.
Between appeasement and war.
Between superstition and reality.
Old Jake is conflict-stifled.
He runs around with tea bags
and shouts obscenities.
If he is the last link
in the evolutionary chain
we are doomed.
Surely neither the Saturday Night Special
nor the Jake Last Link models
are where we should be going.
Hope and optimism are building blocks
for a better world.
Rather than empty tries
to repair and perfect Jake,
why not wait for further evolution?
Doug Minnis
April 18, 2010