Peoms

Peotry

THE GALACTIC SAVAGE

Here we are in our concrete and steel loincloths
wielding our thermonuclear jawbones
and lying to the universe

Look at us !
we're not savages
we're not barbarians
we've got technology
We've got justice
and freedom and democracy

We don't wage war, unless we have to
we don 't kill people, unless they deserve it
we don't let people starve, or freeze on the streets
unless they want to

We're not superstitious
we don't believe in God
we've got doctors, and politicians
we've got science, and condoms, and smart bombs
we've even got Macdonald's

Look at us !
we're the greatest
the pinnacle of evolution
the top of the food chain
the masters of our world

We're not like tramps
lying in the street
suffocating in our own excrement
breathing our own poisons
dying from disease

No, we're the greatest
nature's finest
first above all
Humanity

by David McLauchlan

WHY?

for the sheer
raw pure
unadulterated unsanitised
innocent simple naive
unpretentious unguarded
bold trusting
coarse honest
guileless unsophisticated
dumb stupid
brutish wayward
artless savage
smashing rude
joy of it

by Wilfred