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
