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The Madcap

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Mon Jun 16, 2025, 05:49 PM 18 hrs ago

The Animal

Searching relentlessly the land and sea
For helpless prey to devour
The Animal scouts the earth for food
Ravaging the landscape
Leaving nothing but refuse behind
Waste piled higher than mountains
Contamination
Destruction
Radiation
Desecration

In the end, there will be one Animal
Conqueror of all species
Destroyer of all life
Except for the Animal
Paver of lands,
No trees left behind
Nothing but concrete and steel
Battered by wind and rain
Until the day it becomes rubble
More trash for the heap

The Animals will fight amongst themselves
For scraps of food, peeled from corpses
Corpses of Animals non-surviving
Bones and skin, nothing more
They will slash one another,
Fight one another
Strike one another
Destroy one another
As their lives are worthless
In their self-inflicted destruction

Finally, the Heavens will send fire from above
The battered Earth will open its gaping maw
The caustic Sea will prepare to drink
The Winds will howl in anger
Ready to wipe the Animal from existence
The planet will be barren once again
Like the dinosaurs,
The weakened Animal will be no more.

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