Survival of the Fittest

You've come a long way, baby,

Since the day you stood at the mouth

of the cave, club in hand, preying

for your next meal, your next mate.

You've arrived! Big man on

the corporate campus standing,

Blackberry in hand, surfing

for your next takeover, your next date.

No more face-to-face, Facebook me instead.

No more hand-to-hand combat, UAV's do the deed.

You've adapted "survival of the fittest" from biology,

applying it to commerce and humanity to justify

the -isms: racism, sexism, imperialism, capitalism.

You've evolved, homo sapiens, to a first-rate primate.

©2011 R.M. Talbot

This poem is from a prompt from Jingle Poetry site with an invitation to write on the theme of "Evolution, Environment and Survival" for their Poetry Potluck Monday series.