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Evolution's Rest Stop
By Odin odin@aflx.com
Last edited: Monday, July 10, 2023
This short story is rated "G" by the Author.
       
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Some flash fiction exploring how it is to think of a future when so many wish to ignore what it takes to allow the planet’s survival. Yes, we're getting quite good at self-destruction.(Art by Ernest Doty and Ryan Montoya)

 

Evolution’s Rest Stop

From history did we come
Perpetuating evolvement
Did we not

Yes

We’ve learned our lesson well
Mixing and matching genes
To circumvent ourselves

Arriving at the worldly coliseum
We battle for blood and death
Salivating and fist pumping
We want…
We wish…
Seldom what we need

Yet we forge and sharpen
Our out of control desire
For everything of anything

Leaving DNA scratching its head
“We put up centuries of twist and shred
For this?”

Of course
Minds of a higher purpose
Will someday stopover
Check us out
And pity the evolved mash-up

We’ll greet our planetary visitors
With “Welcome aliens. We are your masters.”
And completely miss
Their dissing of such nonsense
As they leave their rest stop
And move on to another galaxy


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Reviewed by Richard Cederberg
Reviewed on July 11, 2023
To be rejected by aliens... hahahahahaha, that's funny. That would make a good Saturday Night Live bit. "Self-destruction" in your prologue brought to mind a quote by Justin Halpern: “We’re not a very sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when we die, and then fail to see the irony in that.” Thanks for sharing this. Enjoyed. r