Thursday, 20 April 2023

Proto-Motorola

 

Day Twenty


Fantastic style designs on pottery
from Hacilar. Image from Yakar 2005.



The ancients believed
That culture was
Construed by pot
The trash
From which folk sipped

How kooky!
Moonstruck, the
Levantine Fantastic
Geometric Halaf
What misplaced faith
They put
In the Wadi Rabah

We have calculated
There was no Khirokitia
Instead the ancient ones
Were supplicate to slates 
Of glass and plastic

The Apple fashion
Samsung civilisation
The culture of the
Proto-Motorola
They all would pray
To paperweights

These multi-functional
Plastic hand-axes
Could repel a predator
Or even spark real fire
We now believe
They were used to move menhirs

These cultures knew no want
Nor hierarchy. For, running barefoot
In such a palm-oil paradise
Every ancient would accumulate
All the many paperweights
They ever might desire




Inspired by the very lovely Pre-History Podcast


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