Who believed they had a short past.
It’s as if all societies
Were born as undergraduates
Writing their essay assignments
Beginning, Since the dawn of time,
No matter how little they knew.
A few populations had myths
In which ancestors had traveled
To their current habitations,
But even that was near the dawn.
Most were created in situ.
This is nothing particular
To peculiar populations
Or to any variety
Of social configurations.
Pretty much every culture since
The dawn of time has sensed their dawn
Was a very long time ago.
More recent peoples sense this, too.
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