Convoluted Arms Races

pretty Shirley tugging millionare father
to construct her a shopping mall
then build her condos to house her surfers
Not being satisfied, ties daddy’s hands to construct roads
And import her million-dollar cars
And race her surfers to the mirror
But the make-up powder clouds hide the background’s Burning trees and dried up people
The mud-races emerge from their ash
Dolphins on flaying nets
Built by the “sensitive race”

Man encroaching species on a chessboard
Where the pieces made from hickory felled for diversions
And the game is rigged by Corporate fingers 
Perversion by the “sensitive people”

When the rats you brought
chew on all your children’s ears
will you send your mongoose on leashes 
that they will silence them?
Or so you though, 
Sensitive people


The joke’s been played by Hermes
Rats didn’t bait the mongoose
He turned his hunger to rail birds
They’ll roast nicely on man made barbecues
This has become an ecological disaster 
Spilling species and pruning evolutionary trees
Man made Teen magazine pages from these 
To be read by sensitive people


Convoluted Arms races
Guide the path to evolution
Improved brains sharpen the hammer
Polish’d hammers liberate cognition
To seek new frontiers
demand evermore sharpend weapons
To get them erectus must sharpen his brain
when he did he made better hammers
He didn’t need Lowe’s catalogue

The volcano hammer he made by flinting
Caught him bigger hams to fry
His success measured by his marrow’s thickness
his brain contain’d crevice no leopard could follow
convolution propell’d his evolution