Justice Taney presides

The male lion
will stalk the female
kill her young
if they do not
belong to him
he will rape her
leave her
primal in all
he does
and he is left
under the foot
of extinction from
another primal
species

Audacious for sure
this claim of
civilization
virtue when the
evidence belies it
for the primal urge
is witnessed in
the DNA passed
down generation
to generation
same old same old

Some things just
don’t change

5/2024