Evolution by Edwin Brock

EVOLUTION

One wave

sucking the shingle

and three birds

in a white sky

one man

and one idea

two workmen

and a concrete mixer

one wave

shingle

white walls

bird and sky

two workmen

and a concrete mixer

white walls

wave and windows

bird and sky

wave and white rooms

walls and windows

lights and sky

five hundred men

and a computer

desks and days

white walls

lights and

one computer

rooms and men

lights

one computer

desks and days

rooms and windows

desks and lights

lights and days

and days and rooms

desks and rooms

days and lights

daylight in

dayrooms

and days

in desks

and days

in days

and one man

mad

dreaming of

one wave

sucking the shingle

and three birds

in a wide sky

Edwin Brock, A Cold Day at the Zoo (London: Rapp and Whiting, 1970), 16-7.