No Unique Conclusion

Cancer is almost the most
Ordinary death there is,
Proof bodies will eat themselves

If predators, parasites,
Violence, and accidents
Are kept from shredding them first.

The body will eat itself,
If broken cells turn selfish,
Multicellularity

And devotion to the whole
Community of the beast
Betrayed for a brief huzzah,

Runaway evolution
By natural selection
Favoring the buccaneers.

The failure of maintenance,
Of policing, of local
Submission to global rules

Produces, briefly, new life,
New worlds of cancer chaos,
And this is ordinary,

This is the state of nature
In the struggle of all cells.
Life hungry for life itself.