(Darwinism—Poem I of IV)
Why does
the cat curl its tail, to warn the doomed mouse?
Why do
rattlesnakes, rattle, and the cobra expand its frill? ...
And the
puff-adder swells with its loud hissing: perhaps
to warn the birds and the beasts of
their intentions?
Would not
this be contrary to Darwin’s Natural
Selection?
In that,
one cannot produce injurious structures to its
own kind?
In
essence, it would be working against itself—
(a house divided)…
I would
think God had thought: let’s
warn its prey before
extinction—
(kind of
like, the insect that targets the blinking-eye).
#3633 (2-6-2013)
