If sub specie aeternitatis there is no reason to believe that anything matters, then that does not matter either.— Thomas Nagel, The Absurd (1971)
Rabbits aren’t too bright;
foxes, badgers, raccoons, coyotes,
owls, hawks, eagles, crows, snakes,
dogs, cats, and people all eat them.
Their simple survival strategy is sex.
They breed like rabbits.
And when those predators have mostly disappeared,
wiped out for all the usual reasons,
rabbits’ll likely still be there,
prey to a/the species, not quite as dumb—
sub specie aeternitatis
—that multiplies that way, too,
hopping together into the incessant future
as cute as all get-out!
Wednesday, March 19th, 2025
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