survival of the fittest

survival was never easy
in the old days there were lions and tigers
all kinds of wild animals
that could tear a soft homo sapiens
in two
and devour him
before he became biltong

today

man is
the tiger

one hundred and ten
point seven something
percent
more dangerous
than any non homo sapiens

feel free to google it

the figure creeps up
with every species we down

in china the number one tennis star
disappears after speaking up
about a red party member
in france you'll die
if you paint the prophet
israel has razed
gaza to dust
expropriation goes on
in the west bank
the non-dominant fools
were on the wrong side

according to the origin of species
everything mutates
and so do we
ceaselessly
mankind shows astounding growth
in how fast an idea spreads
and survives
words can cross
the borders of time
live on
long after
the thinker's demise

ideas big enough
to murder us all

to sum up
we keep getting smarter
which raises the odds
that the well
for our species
too will run dry
won't i look the fool
having told you so