Not rarely, I envy all kinds of animals, many of them rather simple. But I have never caught myself envying humans, no matter how simple. Some paradox, or what?

Addendum (December 27, 2015)

If this sounds hard to believe, I can only repeat after myself: I have never caught myself envying humans, no matter their fame, fortune, or sexual favors at their disposal. Not once, and this also applies to a bit more than seven years since this haiku was penned. But my envy of animals has been growing all the while, and according to law. To begin with, the longer I get in the tooth, the more I envy them. I have also noticed that the animals I envy are rather simple, indeed. Most important, the closer to the human species they are, the less I envy them. Chimpanzees I do not envy at all, for instance. They are relatives too close for comfort. As years go by, I find myself heading down the evolutionary ladder. At the moment, I am most envious of invertebrates. But bacteria keep beckoning from afar…