Different Clothes
Let's workshop this poem critical of those who deny our oneness with nature
Different Clothes
Near-future tourists
video tusked cutthroats
circled in icy rites
of primeval carnage—
what those who repress
our roots (prokaryotic,
uncuttable) deem
nature’s swansong,
as if humanity engulfing
the globe in Starbucks
was not itself RNA
in tooth and claw.
