free flowing thoughts about darwin day 2023

the spiral slide
from the primordial soup
to the highly sophisticated
socio-economic system
of the twenty-first century
might get a reaction from
spencer: survival of the fittest to
dominate and promote the gods they created

the spiral slide
has become
a mud filled sluice
that is presented as the path
to paradise
in reality a never ending
source of danger
greater than that found on the savannah
socialized contradictions
allow for denial of facts and
the validation of fictions

the realities of war
genocide
racial inequality
poverty
hunger…

the spiral slide
adaptation
survival
socialization
control
denial
conflict…

cooperation is
spiraling toward decline
destined for extinction

Paul Cech has been writing poetry since 1970. Several of his poems have been published as Saturday Poems in the Pittsburgh- Post Gazette and the Thomas Merton Center of Pittsburgh has published several of his poems in NewPeople. Read other articles by Paul.