Sandy Cash Follow

Survival of the Fittest

Before Charles Darwin dipped his pen
To write the Species' Origin
Man's stewardship of the cosmos was unshaken
Then the theory of evolution
Stirred up quite a revolution
By putting Man's Descent before Creation

It was Natural Selection, he said
Not divine election
That determined who survival would elude
And the one that would prevail
And would live to tell the tale
Was the one with access to sufficient food

If I may venture an opinion
On theories Darwinian
They seem to give the modern woman hope
For if Chuck's right the supermodels
And the women thin as rods'll
Soon be sliding down the evolutionary slope

For when bodies that are real
Are compared to the ideal
It can hit a woman in her sense of worth
But with Darwin as our guide
We will no more be denied
And those who eat shall, in the end, control the Earth

I don't mean to be "elitist"
But survival of the fittest
Comes from grabbing what's created as our due
It's all based on adaptations
From amphibians to crustaceans
C'mon girls, if crabs can do it, we can too

Yes, the woman of tomorrow
Will evolve beyond the sorrow
Of selecting fruit cup from the pastry cart
And improvement of her vision
Will add to the precision
With which she locates milk duds in the dark

Adapting to the challenges
Of how the species scavenges
For foodstuffs at the local shopping mall
The flow of her adrenaline
Will serve her very well when
Racing for the shortest check out line of all

The power of her fist and flexibility of wrist
Will easily twist off the tightest lids
And her suppleness of shoulder
And extended reach will hold her
When she raids the treats
She's hidden from the kids

Yet before we can progress
There's an issue to address
The same one Darwin knew the finches faced
Selection, when effectual
Is both natural and sexual
So is subject to guys' unenlightened taste

Still, before we get downhearted
Let's remember how we started
When the first amoebas oozed out of the slime
From our prehistoric past
We've reached low-heeled shoes at last
And the men may evolve too, just give 'em time!