Scenario Z Poem by Rod Lloyd

Scenario Z

We are en masse
the virus of the earth
creatures cannot withstand
pushed beyond
this rapacious hoard
to move and feed.

Cleverness unrestrained
this major attribute evolved
at last is seen and at the last
as many others, a truncated line
some biologist's mapping
of our late discovered
"evolutionary disadvantage."

Too clever this species for its own good
too specialized, forgot its own ecology,
they will say,
they will say.
- whoever, whenever they will be,

after us.