Evolution Ending

Standing at the bathroom door in oblivion
Not oblivious to this total stranger
He was laughing a lot
Everyone was in there together doing their personal and private
He was stopping them on their way out
Asking them to bend their heads forward for a second
He'd say 'Hi, could you just bend your head forward for a second?'
And they would
If they had long hair they'd sweep it down off their necks
Give the neck a soft light wipe
Sprinkle on some yellowy powder from his little satin pouch
Then sniff it up and say 'Thanks
Sorry I had to do it behind your back'
I said 'You must see a lot of necks'
He said 'This is just the beginning, you watch'
I said 'I might do that, but for now I have to find somebody'
'Anybody?' he said
'No, no, somebody'
And I slipped out of his grasp
Possessive, possessed, or a stranger
Anyway, someone was nowhere to be seen
And you can't be seen to stay searching for too long
Not at your own party
Even if you don't care when people stare
When they're looking they're watching
There's only one thing worse than watching
And that's being watched
And I'd had enough of both
So I thought I'd go back to the bathroom door to see what was cooking
Or who was being Hoovered
And I found him there, hysterical
He was laughing now, louder than before
Almost on the floor
He had them coming out of the door
The gate crashes and drink splashes
He had them bending over, lifting their shirts up their spines
Doing lines along their vertebrae
'Crawl on' he'd say, choking with laughter
'Crawl on, you'll be wriggling after'
His face was soaked with tears, his nose and lips caked, coped, choked
I smiled and asked him what was so funny
More concerned than curious now
He wasn't fitting in
He said 'It's like evolution ending'
The message ascending from his tongue in a mouth and tear-stained face
'Has a place in your heart, in your slimy psyche
I can tell you like me
You're like me'
Stillborn twins of dread and despair
The viewer and the viewed
Surveillance is all around us
The only thing worse than watching is being watched
I said 'I know, I was just thinking exactly the same thing'
'I know' he said, 'I was watching'
'From a respectable distance of course'
'Of course' I said
'You wouldn't want to be seen seeing
Why do you like them bending over?'
'People travel' he said
'Of course they do
As long as we've been, we've been moving
We go to Alaska, Nebraska, Calcutta, all over
We move
But wherever we go some things never escape us
They stay the same
The same question keeps asking itself
Keeps demanding an answer
Is evolution ending?
Is this the end of evolution?
When daughters give birth to their mothers
Uncles become brothers
This is the reverse evolution
That's moving backwards
Evolution ending
Maybe, only maybe, we've reached the end of the loop
Evolution, evolotion
Calamine makes me feel fine
Smooth and slippery, soft on the skin
A calming calamine effect when you're fucked
When your evolution's ending
When you've given up pretending
'The descent of man?' I asked
'The descent of the decent
The decent precedent'
He replied, barely smiling now
I could tell he meant it, meant well
'I'm only helping them on their way back' he said
'So soon'
'Some of them only just got here' I said to the hostess
'Don't worry, this is just a dress rehearsal
My own private view
Evolution's ending, but not tonight'