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# Functions and Forms
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- Published: 2021-12-23T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-12-23T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: me thinks that function follows form not just the other way around the two are intricately bound each has its duties to perform in fact, it followed form at first cupping our hands to sate our thirst those early tools...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

me thinks that function follows form  
not just the other way around  
the two are intricately bound  
each has its duties to perform  
in fact, it followed form at first  
cupping our hands to sate our thirst  
those early tools, a rock, a stick  
arose before we learned the trick  
of shaping nature to our needs  
creating forms where none had been  
or digging ditches for our seeds  
and all that happened in between  
the hammer that you hold indeed  
perhaps the optimal of shapes  
a heavy rock would do the deed  
just ask our cousins, the great apes

and so my friend, this contribution:  
they're in convergent evolution