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Melodies XLIX; Notes On An Extincting Species
Fewer and fewer of them remain.
Their progress can be traced from planet to planet
that they have visited: from the edgiest periphery they have
emerged, striving for and grasping at the effulgent center. But on
every surface that has received---then suffered---then regretted---
their boisterous and belligerent stride, they have
left the telltale piles of their mechanism, along with the
chaos of their constant, and covetous, conniptions
Yet, effective emigration from their own originiating environment
did not amerlioate their nautral immunogenicity---such that the
Cosmos itself has responded to their presence across itself,
acting to expel them from the sites of their intrusions, through the
subtle sabatoge of both their simplest and complex devices. And,
adjacent to the extraterrestial litter they have slovenly strewn about,
their carcasses decompose and release a disgusting, defecatory odor.
Their only achieved distinction
shall be their needful, and destined, extinction.d
Fewer and fewer of them remain.
Starward
