Re: Mural

Evolving will not give us birdlike wings
Not in our present state, at any rate,
Unless (and this is true for many things)
Sexual selection should equate
A slightly more bewingéd structure to
A better chance of reproducing you.
Even that push would have to be so great
To overwhelm the fact that fairly clings
To all my thought of this: bones must dilate
To be like birds, and that, to my mind, dings
The chance of seeing humankind that flew
On their own power. No, it will not do.
We will not feather, or begin to fly
Without machines. We will not touch the sky.