Bo and Gi

Darkness mellowed
and from its density,
clay was fashioned hairy.

A while ago, a ding-dong wakes me.
Dazed I look about. "Where am I,
what am I, who in the pits is me?"

No reply comes from rocks nor clouds.
I, Knuckle Guy then spies another creature
to whom I screech in irrational glee - "Gi !"

Creature, more hairy than me,
(but in a higher pitch) screeches back -"Bo! Believe it or not, folks -
I speak true, letters "r," "i"and "l" evolved simultaneously.

And that's how gi languaged into girl. Subsequently, consonant "y"
was appendaged to syllable bo , and since then has rarely been uttered
as the best of compliments but is not the worst of put downs either,

unless you are deeply pigmented
and over the age of 21
in the fabled land of Dixie.
Since then,

Subsequently, consonant "y" was appendaged to syllable "BO,"
establishing the word "boy which ever since those primitive times
has remainednot the best of compliments nor the worst put downs.