Adaptation

In a new riff on Darwin's survival of

the fittest, civil society has turned inward

on itself. We have become misfits in the

sense of social aversion overtaking our

gregarious natures for to submit to life

as usual renders usual life very short for

all too many. Where once parents concerned

themselves with children whose nature was

to be withdrawn and distant from others

this has now become a virtue, one that all

others are enjoined to heed lest a dread

and malevolent life form that has no life

of its own but lurks unseen, an opportunist

awaiting a host enabling it to replicate and

to infect greater numbers of the unsuspecting

invades. Now, the elderly already living a 

hermetic life sealed away from greater society 

must refrain from contact and study the great

Viktor Frankl's memoir for the meaning 

of life as they embark in early morning

hours like unscrupled thieves to access

food to sustain their tentative lives in the

brief hours that grocers set aside to aid their

quest to grow yet older in social hermitage.