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Creatures Can Live In Worlds

okay, it’s one thing to say that whales are not smarter than humans
because they can’t build buildings
and if you want to think of it on just those levels
well, then, you have every right
but all people can think when you say that is
that whales don’t have opposable thumbs
and they live in water

which I guess makes the construction of building a little difficult

we forget to think that creatures can live in words
or worlds
that are different from our own


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the book Oeuvre the 2007 cc&d v171.5 book Living in Chaos, with material from Janet Kuypers