A Whimper

I have of late 
lost all my faith 
in “taste” of either savor: 
gustate 
or aesthete. 

Darwin’s “proximal 
stimulus” 
is  just 
the Siren’s Song 
that 
from the start 
inspired 
the genes and memes 
of our superior 
race 
to pummel this promontory 
into 
for all but the insensate 
a land of waste.