This week’s theme/starter is the word “hierarchy.”
Rules for existence begin and end with knowing what to eat and what eats you.
No man is a king of
this jungle.
We may have the crown
and the scepter,
even a self-fashioned throne.
All of it
poor substitution
for teeth,
claws, and
speed.
Our prey, too,
must remove its finery,
depart from a regal state.
Send away its royal court.
Our weapons and our intellect
Our substitution for teeth, claws, and speed,
a far more effective method
at this scale.
Eat and be eaten.
Muscle to ash to soil
to what is eaten for strengthening
what has outlived our own usefulness.
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