it’s too late, baby, baby

it’s too late, baby, baby

to save a whale,
an empty soda can
a dollar,
a raped Darfur ten year old,
democracy,
virginity
any jungle you can name
temperate old growth forests (we need fluffier TP),
the angel of our better selves
or the memory of what was and what never was

we are the monsters all our fore-father’s scared us with
we are privileged
have the wherewithal
and false-god-given right
to suck the marrow from the last living thing-
a human hyena
the celestial Donner party come-a-calling