Natural Selection

Of all the rational ways
to express oneself,
I believe the majority
of us choose to do
so in irrational ways.

I think it's why nature
has a way of avoiding us,
not because we're
the top of the food chain
(because I hardly believe
anyone really wants
to boast about that,
whether or not it's
even true, so much as
easy to assume, because
we have so many more
ways to kill things
in abundance)
but because nature
is inherently rational,
even all the weather
we find so inconvenient.

Our greatest form of
expression is irrationality,
the ability to know what
the right thing is and decide
not to do it.

I wouldn't particularly call it
evolution, and in that way,
I've never subscribed
to "survival of the fittest,"
because any fool can survive,
and any fool can make
a considerable collection
of things (even trash, and
not just metaphorically,
counts, I might add, and that
shit is free), but it's how
we treat each other, how
we refuse to accept
that our lack of rationality
impedes us, and I say
this from the perspective
of a considerably irrational
mind, because that's
the only way I know to
confront the irrationality
around me.

Yeah, that really doesn't make
any sense, and yet, that's what
I do, out of sheer frustration,
because I keep hoping
and expecting that people
will learn to be less selfish,
and I'm not talking by way
of symptoms, of material things,
but in the way they approach
others, about knowing that
they can't just assume the world
will accept every ill-considered
thought they have.

That's what school ought to do,
if parents won't, instead of
cramming "knowledge" only
intended to act as an example
(and yet graded as though
life depended on it), try
and see what wisdom,
a little common sense,
can accomplish.

I'm not saying people
are stupid, but they
sure like to act like it.

Predictably
irrationally.