of
an evil amœba,
a
diaphanous, single-cell floater?
Unlike
paramecia,
they are without cilia:
they are without cilia:
they cannot glide
across a glass slide
as they die
for our merriment
for our merriment
in
a junior high
science experiment.
Our ancestral Cro Magnon
proved an unfit companion
for the European Neanderthal.
Invading
their homeland
he
promptly disowned them.
Evidently they couldn't play “hardball”.
Y'all'll
recall
what goodoleboy Saul
did
unto the Amalekites*?
(Now, I
ain't sayin' Team A
wudda
treated Team J
any
better if things
went
the other way. . . .
What
I am sayin' is
from
time primeval,
in times tough or easy
humans is evil.)
Were
there evil dinosaurs?
Are
there now evil wolves?
Was anything evil before ourselves?
Actually, there's not much to discuss.
If evil exists, it's because of us.
________________________________________________*Please see 1 Samuel 15:3