no, nothing
to admire among Persona nongrata
the accidents of Emily Dickinson, Rosa Parks
no more than rogue
offshoots from rudest stock
fie to the one who named
the species after the male gender
as if Branta canadensis were Gander canadensis
as if it weren’t crime enough
to name a bird after a nation state
brutes who compete
ravage, vanquish, dominate, ever enclose
what once was common turf
exterminators who now face extinction
richly deserved
no, not by the slow dying of the sun
not by earth's heat erupting thru the crust
instead, by its own hands
mining, burning, polluting, the species
wills its end
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