Notes of a Body Anthro-Apologist

from Water Seeking Light Audio Book by Christopher Robin Anderl

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lyrics

Notes of a “body anthropologist”/an Infomertial (not Commertial, implying that only information is being given, nothing sold; treacherous lies, though, masqueraded by “experts in health and fitness”—they probably are—who cares?) the body anthro-apologist cares

That we should not smile
our yellowed, worn, toothless smiles

(except for rustic, commerical effect)

That we should not hone our flesh
to earth walking
in uneven leisured gate.

That instead this artificial
White Smile fitness-crazed tv

Try as we might,
nothing so difficult

as simplicity, acceptance
of a natural, time-honored, time-bound
and time-less Way
of Being

in ancestral bodies bulging
here and there, worn and weathered

into sun-parched potato skin sacks
slung over shoulder blades bent
and danced into lines drawn

upon this Earth

that is us: Sung and Spoken.

From which soil springs this
plastic plant we call Amerika?

Surely not the deep soil

of Earth People.

(in a bright and perky voice, Barbie says):

It perfectly simulates walking
while simultaneously toning all the muscles of the body

and whitening your teeth
creating a new, better you
all from the privacy of your own home.

Memo: Brave new world

The End is Near