Lawrence Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
The
Apex Predator
They…
Have watched me rise from the darkness of war
Dripping with my enemies’ blood
-Beowulf,
trans. Raffel, lines 151-153
The apex predator feeds upon the flesh
Of those who wanted desperately to
live
To hew and chew and gnaw and digest
and mesh
With those who died with no desire
to forgive
The apex predator feeds while
others starve
The sentient flee from him in grievous
fear
But he always wins, his victims then
to carve
In bloody fields and haunted forests
drear
War ends violently in drang und
sturm
And the apex predator is obviously
The
Worm
