Monday, November 21, 2022

Rhinoceros

The Northern White Rhinoceros

Went extinct

Because weak old men

Half a world away

Believed that its horn

Would restore

Their youthful virility


God curses

The arrogance 

The greed

And brutal ignorance

Of our oft-misguided species


We may not be

The next

To go extinct

But be forewarned

A day of reckoning

Is coming

For all who inhabit

A scorched and barren planet



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