Mankind would do better
To avow that all respiring co-tenants
residing on the green, peripatetic planet,
Are, in common, Earthly dust eaters
From protozoa to platypus.
Felis domesticus to Bonobo Arborist
All dine on the Earth’s airborne menu
The aerial detritus of past performance, of
Earth’s theatrical presentation of planetary life
The silent thinkers and the dynamic doers
Of every prismatic reflection
The conglomerate of planetary respirants
Ineluctably, fellow dust-eaters
-p.
[Leonard N. Shapiro, Kingston N,Y,2/22/25
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