The Poetry of Brian Langley
This poem is a comment on the fact that it seems to many older people
that younger folk seem to have forgotten how to speak properly.
We have a great deal of difficulty understanding shop assistants, people on
the phone and many modern movies.
I know it has little to do with our hearing, for we understand each other
perfectly well.
Perhaps it's got something to do with:
Evolution
You’ve heard of Charlie Darwin, that scientific chap
Whose evolution theory at the time caused quite a flap.
He classified the animals, said which has come from what
And pointed out the common bits that lots of us have got
He said that we’re like monkeys, like apes and chimpanzees
That we walk upright on two legs supported by our knees
And while these other animals can grunt and scream and squawk
You can tell us from the monkeys - for we have learned to talk
Read all 8 verses of this poem in my booklet "The Forest and other Verses"
© Brian Langley Aug 2006
