"The Last Neanderthal's Love Song" by Caleb Crain:
O ancestors! Please hear my cry.
I'm eighteen summers old.
I need a wife, but evolution's
Left me in the cold.I'm the last Neanderthal.
I have some woman friends—
Nice-looking, others tell me—but
They're Homo sapiens.
Continued here. Photo by Flickr user Erich Ferdinand:
[T]his was taken at the original place of the first findings of the neanderthal men… to be found at: www.neanderthal.de [T]he red/white poles in the background mark the place where the bones were found
The Dish 