O Vermin

Life turns when needs that need to turn to live
change. Ants don’t stop because a selfish mind
thought/thrust a city up from mud. They spring
from steel and concrete cracks to march for more.
A countertop replaces jungle where
bananas weighed the same. Machete swings
untangle vines for power cords entwined
behind a plasma screen TV. Man gives
them everything they grew to want by wasting
more efficiently than nature. Cleaning
rags and gutters merely save the breeds
that broom the earth some effort. Because they feast
on what he thinks he does not (should not) need
man spites the life that lives in spite of man.