Have you ever stood
In the midst
Of a locust swarm?
Buzzing white wings stained
Like dirty doves,
Angels of appetite and plague,
Jaws click-clicking for (any)
Trace of remaining green
Like a hungry cloud.
The penguin flails in the jaws of the seal,
Violent orgy of frothing surf and sand.
More penguins watch calmly from the beach;
With mouths to feed, they turn away.
Beast to beast there is
No altruism—
Humans to the earth,
Teeth gnashing,
Demons of
Wreckage
And greed.
And we, on the backs of
Another species' extinction,
And another, another, another,
Drive our own selves to the same fate,
Eating green pasture after green pasture,
Teeth gnashing in a cloud of hunger
Taking--
The whole world with us
