Experiment Just Begun

Experiment Just Begun

Bob Komives

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We learn from failure, success.
We also unlearn.

Dinosaurs:
. . . . millions of years,
. . . . billions of successes,
. . . . a grand experiment,
. . . . high-class guests,
. . . . then biosphere forgot how to make them.
Humankind:
. . . . new guests,
. . . . still learning,
. . . . biosphere has just begun our experiment.

Among those
species,
cultures,
families,
individuals
who survived yesterday,
many,
but not all,
are fit.
Among those that did not survive,
many,
but not all,
were unfit.
Who will survive until tomorrow?

Countless blunders in the biosphere today.
Some who blundered,
some who innocently stood by,
caught by biospheric justice
—executed before tomorrow.

Let it scare humankind;
again our capacity to blunder rose today.
Let it comfort humankind;
again rose our capacity to understand,
. . . . anticipate,
. . . . record,
. . . . improve
what survives today until tomorrow.

Bob Komives :: Fort Collins © 1996 :: Experiment Just Begun :: ,9631

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