Prehensile

Usage

Why does the chimp not rule the earth? It has the all best bits of that grandest design: apposable thumb, prehensile tail, bipedal gait... Perhaps were God to grant the chimp an ostrich eye we might bow to a new maker...

Like the anaconda's embrace, his arguments swirl about, slowly ensaring, until the truth is hidden, enfogged, engorged, like the dewy sprig lost in a vaporous fog...

Yeah, sure, you already thought of it; what else is new?

...the chimp with his tail, and the elephant his nose; the squid with his tentacle, and man with his mind.

Gimme, gimme, gimme.

See Also

• Lucretia Borges

Desiderata