Since Something Comes to Lick All Plates

Bronze Age canine coprolites
Reveal a grain-based diet.
Dogs lacked genes for amylase,
So they couldn’t digest starch,
But their gut microbes helped out.
Microbes might have done the same
For early types of humans.

There’s such a lovely teamwork
To how life devours itself,
Always evolving something
Refining what was wasted
Into fuel for something else,
Whose own waste in time becomes
A delicacy on high shelves.

Hunger is so exquisite,
And, given years, so is waste.
Whatever can be eaten
Is fuel for whatever eats.
Jack Sprat may eat no fat, and
His wife may eat no lean, but
Every platter ends up clean.