Ha! I am the Winner!

This

Can be a false start

A knee jerk echo

Of past conflambulations

Of tired rituals

Hugging comfort

Forsaking discovery

 

The eye can have its fill of seeing

Without moving

The ear can have its fill of hearing

Without listening

Out here at the edge of the edge

The universe billows past

Into the future

And time recedes

Into the past

 

Quaint

Said the frog

to the monkey

The human knows

how to arrange letters

on a page

 

Big deal scoffed

the lizard

There is nothing

more peturbational

than a sentient

running amok

in words

 

Without anchor

without formlessness

echoed the crow

sadly

 

The drunk reeled into the scene

The stench of motivational glory

Shying the animals away

 

Woo

What a stink

The squirrel cried

And looked up to heaven

Silent

Beseeching

 

What will we do with these

the worm full of scorn

articulated

 

Ha!

 

The man hacked

At the forest

Carving a clearing

 

Ha!

 

He stood

Sweat dripping down

Muscled determination

The curve of victory

Sneering his lips

 

Ha!

 

He threw back his head

and laughed

I have battled the elements

And conquered

He did not say

 

Ha!

 

Ayn Rand knelt in holy submission

And In her wake

A billion debutants

Writhed in the pleasure

flooding their cunts

(without recourse to gender)

Intelligence never felt so sexy

Or did it?

 

The peacock swept up its feathers

Exasperation rent the air

Creating space

For new thought forms

 

Whispering, questing, darkening

The light from the man

Twisting, changing

 

Some animals watched the show

Horrified

This is our ruler?

asked the fox

Poor thing, said the sparrow

 

I will not be pitied

The drunk roared

With a wild swing

The machete

Almost severing

His own jugular

 

Tch tch remarked the Lion

Irritably

These humans

He clucked

Non committal

 

Come, he said

We must retreat

Contact your respective galaxies

We must feign incomprehension

Till they learn

 

The animals slipped away

Into the shadow of the jungle

The silence in the clearing

Unbroken

Except for the hard labored breath

 

Ha!

He screamed

Exulting

Arms up in the air

I am the winner

He danced

I have won

You have lost

Watching the retreating trail

 

The lion chuckled

And some bozo

Will crown me

King of the Jungle

 

The animals looked

At him

Astonished, Bewildered

And then it struck them too

And the jungle exploded into laughter