Evidence

Chris Tonelli

I don’t          
                              really get
                              the survival instinct.

                         In
finite things, in
infinite things.

Being spoiled
is evidence 
                          of over-evolution.

                                           The death
wish.
The grief
                                               economy.

                                               Strategic
animals,
imaginative
                          animals,

                          there aren’t
                          very many thoughts.

                          There’s an abyss
you’ve lost, 
but it’s not the only  
                                           abyss there is.


This is one of four Fall 2015 GC Online Exclusive poems by Chris Tonelli. Click to read "Clothes," "Safety," or "Technologies."