Why We Aren't Smart Poem by Alexandre Nodopaka

as termites is beyond
my comprehension.

They begin their life
as wingless insects
and are an extended
organism
as an alternative
to an extended
phenotype
a composite of an
organism's observable
characteristics.

The entire mound
insects
plus
their structure
is a living entity.

A self-regulating
physiological and
cognitive system
with a sense
of its own boundaries
a memory
and a collective
intentionality.

In other words
they are way ahead
of the manner I think
of myself
being for most of my life
a haphazard
flow with the flow being.

Oh! Too much wind.