What Does It Mean to Be Human?

What Does It Mean to Be Human?

Current Events
You found some bones in a cave, and I'm proud of you. Let me ask: Is it a graveyard or a crime scene? While we dally over links to the past, we evict the present as jetsam. What if we dare to bestow the title      human on these barely human creatures but in accepting the notion refuse      to          grace              millions with the same dignity - who deserve it by right, whether evolutionary or not. My pride has its limits.
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Forgetting

Forgetting

Current Events
We will forget. For at least three-hundred and something days most of us will live like nothing ever happened. Will you please forgive us, them, everything? We can't take it back, but can we start       again?
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Loving Your Own

Current Events, illustrations
Take what isn't yours and run! Stolen things are better in mixed company. So gather false friends and family, you know, the ones who support you, come what may. Your real friends aren't friends when they tell you you're wrong. They're tedious, big brothers just waiting for you to cave and betray your god-awful feelings of confident grief: You were born in the wrong way.
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Mt. Denali

Current Events
I have a name you've never heard. Call me what you want. I was before you. I will be here when your dust mingles with mine in a tributary of time and patience. Use me as a peace offering, as a statement piece, as an exhibition of genius, but let's be clear; I belong to no man.
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