Another example of my phase of weirdness, or maybe this is just the way I am
anyway. Call it poetic licence to revive that particular cliche. The lineage
is deliberate and trying to achieve a hesitant effect of thoughts horrific
and not really thought through. I suppose you could say this was a "just
supposing" poem.

ANIMAL KINGDOMS

And so we come to think
of animals and what that
might mean to us an animal
spieces who has raced in
a few millenia to the top of
the pecking order - funny
we should even use that phrase,
that blithe hommage to other
living things and what we
presume they do instinctively
we do with thought behind it,
what we call premeditate
and claim we are above the
animal state. What if
our position was held by
the armadillo? Its concertina
like attitude to the world at
large allows the flexible movement
of life lived mostly under a
very thick skin with
potential to war with other
competing domains like
Turtleonia or Aardvarkville.
If this was so then we would have
been left alone to gather the
fruit of the land and
die early of natural selection.



bw
James




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