SCAVENGERS

Most of us don't 

hunt for prey any more 

We sit in the 

coliseum of civilisation

eagerly awaiting

the tearing apart

of the gladiator

celebrating not his heroism

but our own covert sadism

we sympathise 

with the victims of

our systems

enjoying our place 

in the unending 

chain of

opressor/opressed

they say we were

primates once

I doubt

we could even have been

scavengers.