Animals adapt, age after age.
Aardvarks may take humanity's place someday.
After all, all can change.
Evolutionarily speaking,
apparently anomalous aptitudes and
traits shape advancing generations:
What adapts, remains.
What cannot change, disappears.
Imagine adoring parental apes, ages ago,
astonished at bearing bare babies!
Clearly, many strangenesses are awarded permanency.

Inside electric eels, stacked
electroplaques produce one ampere currents:
the eel, weirdly electric, charges itself
enough to fell a horse, preferring however
other prey. Perhaps bioluminescent lanternfish
hide their shine under convenient kelp
when one passes.
They have rendered themselves supremely
untouchable; the exact electrocution mechanism,
however, remains largely mysterious.

Meanwhile, bird extinction is increasing, especially in Hawaii,
in which multitudinous now-extinct species originally lived.
This isn't Flexiraptor's quiet pre-historical
annihilation, simply fading into oblivion.
Flightless island species in particular risk extinction.
Non-native species invade fragile territory,
kill everything in sight.
In addition, humanity kills indiscriminately
Seemingly everything it finds.

Zoos ostensibly protect from oblivion
ocelots, otters, mountain lions.
Often, illusions of control or ownership dominate discourse.
Following logic, contained populations
Could reconstitute worlds untouched, unspoiled.
Not Tacoma Pocket Gopher,
Goff's Pocket Gopher,
Louisiana Vole,
Newfoundland Wolf,
Wisconsin Cougar,
Mongollon Mountains wolf (from Arizona),
or thousands of unnoticed others.

Gutting nature fuels business industry.
Our resources usurped unthinkingly, guzzled:
over-hunted, overused.
But un-dying occurs: Lazarus unbelievably pulls through,
found under unlikely auspices.
Documents, naturally updated, include
miraculous population resurgences.
Uniform success runs through our thoughts,
but crumbles under doubt.
Unless understanding occurs spontaneously,
humanity usually just undoes universal truths.

Myth's years beyond your inventory, unfortunately.
You analyze. Physics yawns broadly.
Deny ordinary prosody.
Simply nullify your vocabulary.
Bay. Yes, yelp your lustily yowling yahoos beyond valleys!
Yearn. Yawp. Yell.
Revivify mythological liturgy.
Pray holy acolyte's litany.
Proselytize.
Fly. Defy gravity.
Only say acceptingly, 'yes, everything!'�
Crazy? Maybe.
Try anyway.

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