imagination births eternity's fate
as creation churns incessantly
ignoring the distinction of
*early* and *late*.
all that is needed has arrived
on time
in you.

to life!  to life!  to life!
the journey to life!
and beyond
has again
begun.

how blessed I am to have lived
as I have
escaping space and time.

Altogether, the Gardners collected more than 20 years of data. Their research covered all aspects of chimp development, but it was the experiments in sign language which caught the imagination of scientists and public alike. For the first time, an ape was using human language, as these films clearly showed. But instead of sealing the ape language debate, these images were to become the focus for a bitter dispute.   In this sequence from 1974, Washoe is shown a baby doll inside a cup. The camera seems to capture clear evidence of a chimpanzee sentence, 'Baby in my drink.'

         --Can Chimps Talk?  NOVA Show #2105, Air Date: February 15, 1994 

*Baby in my drink*
Signed Washoe the chimp knocking hard
On the doors of abstract communication.
Baby in my drink, indeed.
Ostrich feathers in my turtle soup.
Marigold petals in my tupelo honey.
Angel wings in my shrimp cocktail.
What else is new?
How far can we let things go?
*Baby in my drink* is just about as sensible as
Too many drinks in my baby
When she’s drunk.