Flirting With Darwin


From the thread of a
champion chimp’s womb you sprang.
Your scouring epistemology
was not of Genesis, but of class and species.

When a tired woman laid down
with you, her legs spread wide,
no thoughts of eternal damnation
lurked to seize you impotent.

Oh, but what of great miracle men?
To you they had a place of need.
The fittest were made to fuck the fittest,
and the rest should simply die.

To the symbol which denotes
Jesus Christ they’ve added feet.
They call it “fact” now.
They call it you, sir.

It scuttles by on the
tail ends of pickup trucks.
Is it painful for you,
when it’s smashed in a rear-ender?
I shrug.
How does one contemplate the dead
when souls don't exist?