CADMUS

CADMUS

were given the instruction
to be bounteous and
multiply

as for beauteous
were given that manual too

and now you see
our seed proliferate
our deeds profligate

spreading
the open market of
our rationality across
every horizon, vista
to vista
   high and low

and those teeth
we planted
      how fertile they proved
to be

star seed springing up
mirror demons more
than ready
to come to blows
force the issue with us

breed,
     split, chain react

teach us how the ultimate
physics of our protection
crazy virus of
our
     desperate war for
preservation

will be
the destruction, the death of us