Evolution -- Not the Greatest Show on Earth

or    
    
The Other Brainless "Design" in Default of a Design      
      
"In and of itself bad, Pain alone has Objective Value for
all conscious, feeling beings --
both human and nonhuman --
explaining why no such being wishes to be ripped apart and eaten alive."  
-- the Realist,
a conscious, feeling being of Reason  
  
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For every tiny sparrow in its nest,      
still several nestlings fallen to the ground      
not being yet by Nature dispossessed      
a moment brief rest safe, secure, and sound;      
for every baby elephant unharmed,      
another calf naively having strayed      
discovers while alone and full unarmed      
a pack of teeth come circling in to aid;      
for every cub with Mommy in its lair,      
this little lionheart is overpowered      
or drowns when summer skies decline from fair      
or slowly dies by parasites devoured;      
for trapped here in the wild as one survives --      
the Horror on a host of children thrives.      
    
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a dedication of Respect
for
the Pain of trillions of sentient beings daily tortured    
 
a revolving helios sonnet shakespearean satire menippean on
the popular, sentimental, romanticized notion of
"Mother Nature"
    
january, 2023 -- beneath the snow
yet scraps of flesh