Evolution

This dream in some stinking goo

has pushed its creator

to make a finger move perceptibly

Next week it becomes a hand

followed by a very noticeable arm

These things attached to a whatever

really have no names

because there's no Darwin or Webster

on this level to identify what they are

and won't exist much beyond sunset

This gets something else to wondering

is it all too much to contemplate

since something else is grossly hungry

that this what thinks these parts

may be just as tasty as the last

Pretty soon a preference develops

beyond all imagination

into cravings for whatever grows

on this unnamed thing

damn its just completely delicious

And so we come to Kentucky

a complete bastardization of a word

that had its origins in the species

of some native word believed

to outline a particular place

Thus words have evolved

of this storied place

possibly full of Crocketts and Boones

but who cares now about these edibles

certainly not the people at church

Even the book they hold

has so many incarnations

that precise language is unstoppable

upheld while sitting at pew's edge

but by gODD they know

So take your beaks Mr. Darwin

plug them into any fruit or nut

you happen to be supporting today

So say Kentucky folks covered

in evolved bugs what eats them whole

Barry G. Wick