Waiting for the One

Homo Sapiens

They were anxious to put as many genera between us and ape

as possible; so each new jaw-bone, each different skull,

each new femur became a new genus.

Gradually then, all these rungs were being discovered.

Then someone said " Hey, where’s the cut-off !"

No one knew, it hadn't been discovered,

or had but wasn't recognized.

So we're still waiting for him who'll come to announce:

"Hallelujah, this is The Bone,

 the One that'll divide the fossil record into b.b. and a.b.

(before and after bone).”