Ima Ryma Poems

I am Mitochondrial Eve,
The most recent woman from whom
All living humans did conceive
And tied as coming from my womb.
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A cotton-top tamarin, I
Do swing at the Lincoln Park Zoo,
In monkey shines - don't ask me why.
I just do cute, that's all I do.
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A European white stork, I
Was just an egg some months ago,
And came to Lincoln Park Zoo - why?
Cuz there are two storks here who know
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'Bill, will the scandal never stop? '
'National Portrait Gallery -'
'You're painted where your pants don't drop, '
'But there's a shadow all can see.'
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The Kingdom of Freedom be where
Freedom gives opportunity.
King Freedom is the ruler there.
King's only rule is to live free.
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I do not tell you how to live.
I only ask that you just try,
When taking from me all I give,
To live with love until you die.
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Way back in great granddaddy's day,
He'd hook the oxen to the cart,
And head from the farm on his way
To town where there he could take part
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Tale of 'Arsenic and Old Lace, '
Abby and Martha Brewster were
Spinster sisters of charm and grace
Who were on a mission for sure.
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The meliponine bees do be
Found all throughout the Amazon.
Though stingless they bite easily
When they perceive there's threats upon.
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A night hawk is building a nest
Somewhere in the back of my brain,
And is causing me to lose rest.
A sign of me going insane?
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