A note to Darwin


I don't understand
Mr Darwin

This selection
of which you speak
seems very unnatural

If I must change
my teeth to sabre
in order to eat
my blunted neighbour
and force them to change
to bigger sabres
in order to eat me back

Then how long before
we are all indentures?

Just toiling
and ever-hunching
for the fear
of attack?


© Brendan Bonsack
April 2016