Nature

Nature is sneaky.

I mean, when it comes right down to it,

Mother Nature is one sneaky bitch.

I remember when I was in eighth grade

Health Class

And Life Sciences class

Learning about sex

And the birds

And the bees

And evolution

And genetics.

Genes are selfish

That I learned

They’ll do anything

To make us reproduce

And survive.

They (in collaboration with Mother Nature, that bitch)

Invented sex.

That I learned

As I learned

I sat there at my little desk

In Science or Health, or whatever

Feeling that we

(Humankind)

Had been completely

(and unbelievably)

Duped.

“You mean...”

I said to myself

“That LOVE- romantic, spellbinding, tantalizing, scintillating

Happily ever after, would do anything for, ‘till death do folks part

LOVE

Along with all the songs, stories, great literature

Gossip and giggles

And Romeo and Juliet

And kiss and caress

And all the rest

That LOVE and SEX

Are MERELY Mother Nature (that bitch)

TRICKING US, (tricking us!) 

Into reproducing?

I’M NOT FALLING FOR IT.” I said.

But I did.

‘Cause like it or not

You just can’t fight

Mother Nature.

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