Fertile Crescent

the pecking order started from day one
and even before, fixed ancestors preyed and pranced
entranced with bones, stones, metals
eating, competing, sleeping, fornicating together
placing one civilized foot print heavily in front of the other
clinging onward and upward towards their own collapse
obsessed with recycled fears, with gods and monsters
carefully mapped, order remains;
some still pampered, others restrained

~Emily Loren Moss