Problem Solvers

One writer promises,
Although all the songbirds
Vanish, the crow will live.

It’s perhaps over-bold
To predict a species
Immune to the current

Progress of extinction,
But of course the corvids
Seem uniquely suited

To life with or without
Humanity. Clever.
Everyone says they are.

There are cultures with crows
Playing the trickster role,
But no myths of dolt crows,

And culture puts great stock
In its own strategy.
Be clever. Be clever.

Less clever, however,
The further back one goes.
How clever are sponges,

Ferns, or algae? Still here,
Though, and through more than one
Great extinction event.