...Of The Fittest

Survival...

             Owns no manufactuer's manual

on Life, it has no scheme or plot

nor the ability to count cards

 

it's genius has no shame

does not reflect

              or give pause for consequence

it does not think

about what great lesson it learned

 

Survival pushes on

with or without a Joker's thin grin

and lack of grace

 

Survival has no feathers

or Neitze beauty to display

                never hides behind a rock

it wears no shade

 

Survival does not express

fear, relief, or shock

just simple Strength

                with an unreadable

poker-face...

Reviews

[Ed Hart]

it helps to have pocket aces, but they get beat often enough to make it a scary hand...anything can jump out of the bushes and grab you...i remember once looking at a woman's a*s, and coming within an inch of being run over...survival just means you're here, now...to think about it this much and say it this well, the poet has had to survive...