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Once an anthropoidal ape	A
Hairy savage strange of shape	A
On a day that was excessively B C	B
In a forest damp and dim	C
With his tail round a limb	C
Hung head downward from a neolithic tree	B
And appeared to be lost in gloomy introspection	D
	-
In his dull primeval style	E
He considered quite a while	E
A comparatively thoughtful ape was he	B
Then he drummed upon his chest	F
And remarked 'I give it best	F
Strike me lucky This 'ere game's no good to me	B
And I'm full up of the whole damn business '	-
To the father of the tribe	G
He proceeded to describe	G
How upon a change of living he was bent	H
Said the Tory anthropoid	H
'Son such thoughts you should avoid	H
They are obviously born of discontent	H
And such revolutionary notions would rend the whole social fabric '	-
Since the Eocene	I
Till this age of biplanes	J
Man has ever been	K
Yearning toward the high planes	J
And while the Tory lags behind in by ways worn and narrow	L
'Tis the discontented section that shoves on the old world's barrow	L
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Once a naked troglodyte	H
On a bitter Winter's night	H
Sat and shivered in his cave the whole night through	M
For his scanty coat of hair	N
In no manner could compare	N
With the matted clothes his late forefather grew	M
Meaning the meditative anthropoidal ape I mentioned previously	B
And the troglodyte remarked	H
As without a wild dog barked	H
And a dinosaurus lumbered through the fog	O
'I am sick of nakedness	J
And I'd like I must confess	J
To be shielded in the clothing of a dog	P
And hang me if I don't go after one in the morning '	-
	-
He was met with scoffs and grins	J
When he walked abroad in skins	J
And the troglodyte Conservatives cried 'Shame	B
Thus to hide the healthy nude	H
Is obscene indecent rude '	-
But the malcontent felt warmer all the same	B
And so began the evolution of the split skirt and the hot sock	Q
Since the Age of Stone	R
To these Days of Reason	D
Man has keener grown	R
In and out of season	D
'Tis through being discontented that humanity progresses	J
If you're satisfied with dog skins you will ne'er have satin dresses	J
Once upon a time a slave	S
Had an impulse to behave	S
In a most unprecedented sort of style	E
He threw down his tools and cried	H
That he wasn't satisfied	H
And all slavery was barbarous and vile	E
They probably boiled him in oil but that's merely incidental	T
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Once again a man who rode	H
In a coach disliked the mode	H
Of that locomotion 'Twas too slow by far	U
He was filled with discontent	H
So he or some other went	H
And in course of time evolved the motor car	U
And if ever you've had one scare seven devils out of you you'll know	L
it for a very great invention	D
	-
So observe this discontent	H
To mankind is wisely sent	H
That he may be urged along to conquer new things	J
They who were quite satisfied	H
Like the Dinosaurs died	H
While the discontented anthropoids still do things	J
And continue to be discontented of course but that's all in the game	B
Since the age of apes	J
To this generation	D
Mankind thus escapes	J
Absolute stagnation	D
Here's the only consolation my philosophy is giving	V
Discontentment with existence is your sole excuse for living	V

Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis

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