Counter-evolutionary

Unsatisfied
with swinging from a bough,
he sought the stars.

Regard him now,
the
lord of a lowered sky;
opposable thumb
around a can of beer,
his complex,
stereoscopic eye
begins to blear.
He stoops,
he sways
from
side to side,
jaw sagging as
his reason is
derailed:
The very image
of
the ape that tried
to be a God
and ignominiously failed.