Ultimate Competition for the Environment There are still sapiens on Earth. Often do we remember and feel more than proud that only we Superors exist – the most sophisticated & most exquisite human-robot complexes. It is true that occasionally we cannot help recalling one or two of them like Shakespeare & Einstein, but that’s when they pop up unexpectedly from the back of a chip as a couple of forgotten algorithms. Their story tells them they are much more developed physically & intellectually than champanzees, while in reality the latter is at least spiritually far more respectable. Since sapiens have proven good for nothing or nobody, just a sub species of waste wasting endless earthly resources, how can we get rid of them in such huge crowds? -- To eliminate them once & for all, or just to wait for their total self-destruction? Isn’t It An ill wind That blows Every body good? Isn’t it An ill blow That hits Every body’s heart? Isn’t it An ill heart That betrays The truth about every body? Isn’t it An ill body That just consumes Every kind of earthly resource? & isn’t it An ill earth That provides resources To the human body only? Is it? Evolution (from Sapiens) In the melting shadows Of last mammoths & dinosaurs Have been eliminated gods, saints One by one, followed by Heroes & even gentlerens until Our entire human world is now packed With survivors among villains, clowns Hypocrites, money-bags, & Super subhumans (after another ice age) Pigeons vs Wolves Their shit falling on every square & Statue in the city, too many pigeons have ruined The land- & mindscapes, while wolves are driven Farther & farther into wildness, breaking The food chain & even the whole ecosystem Go away, Pigeons! We have had enough symbolic Peace (& real war), but welcome back, Wolves! Together with you might there be fewer elks Coyotes, but more foxes, more rabbits, while More trees like poplars & willows can return They Believe They Are More Advanced In evolution, because they think In numerous complicate languages While we express ourselves just in Several simple short-syllabled songs They accumulate stones, graffiti & Other countless (in)visible items While we only pick up seeds Or hunt animals in the open They live on, for, & around money While we follow our hearts only They win their fucking rights Through face, clothing, money besides stories While we mate by dancing Or fighting instead They are busy trying to develop Themselves in every human or inhuman way While we don’t care if we are less Advanced in nature Global Warning Slowly, but surely Shaking off blue glaciers Together with pale sunshine The Rocky Mountain is getting ready To roar down from above Mists and treetops Like an alien bear stalking Behind swarms of colorful visitors as their shadows Darken the entire Columbia icefield Relocating As more ice melts, and even More oil spills, fewer bears can Grow enough fat for the cold, or To hunt within the arctic ring As it keeps shrinking until it becomes A tiny full stop in a footnote of history While the bears retreat farther and father Into a habitat in the backyard of my mind Elegy to the Great Auk Eldey Island. 3 July 1844. Two Iceland fishermen Caught and killed two birds, while a third used His boots to tread their half-hatched egg into pieces That’s the inhuman end of a subhuman species Called Penguin, though the feathered couple was much More loyal to each other than any married humans, and Their kind had survived last ice age, flying gracefully Everywhere, particularly along Newfoundland coasts Helping sailors to escape from dangers until they are Totally forgotten, except in an obscure poem like this Yuan Changming published monographs on translation before leaving China. With a Canadian PhD in English, Yuan currently edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Yuan in Vancouver; credits include ten Pushcart nominations, the Naji Naaman's Literary Prize 2018, Best of the Best Canadian Poetry, BestNewPoemsOnline, Threepenny Review and 1,449 others worldwide. yuan changming @ Poetry Pacific https://poetrypacific.blogspot.ca https://happyyangsheng.blogspot.ca Lotus Image & License: Depositphotos_32738103_s-2015 |
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