SPECIES

SPECIES

maybe

     as they

deepen

these divides
and dichotomies
are

not going to plunge the world
into civil war
upon civil war

no
   we could
find ourselves
            saved from self-
annihilation by the advent
of the
    simple, planet-saving,
evolutionary solution

allowing us
     to species-split along
all seams,
    do the most natural thing

become
as many kinds of hominid
as there are stars
in the firmament

since it seems impossible
that such an
    outcome

will scarcely allow
us to
    treat each other worse
than we
do now

or as
   unequally, unjustly, and, yes,
genocidally