Cro-Magnon Man vs.  Low-Magnon Man

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It took us fifteen thousand years to sink

To jigsaw puzzles.  Lascaux art shines out

In darkness but stupidities shrink true

Images to little childish pout —

A puzzle pasted to some cardboard, cut

In stupid shapes for mindless minds to piece

Together dumbly.  Such leads them to strut

Around as if their wizard wonders never cease.

The hands that made the cave-wall creatures long

Ago were more intelligent than saws

And fingers now.  Drawn aurox and its prong

Bring modern thinking to a blushing pause.

  Cro-Magnon men were smarter than the lot

    Of puzzle sorts whose minds are nearly nought.

~ Phillip Whidden