Showing posts with label extinction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label extinction. Show all posts

Sunday, June 23, 2013

We're All Dinosaurs

My love

When the dust cleared
The sky no longer opaque
After a global light switch
Had simply shut off
The world changed

Today, the How is still argued
Cosmic? Seismic? Biologic?
All the above?
All at once?

"What's that? A bone? And here
See, a footprint in limestone."

* * * * *

Take a note, Ms. Raptor
The Fern Salad Co.
La Brea Post Office
 
Dear Sirs:
 
It has come to my attention
your recent shipment of leafy greens
was much too sandy [stop]
 
Please rectify as you otherwise
have an excellent product [stop]
 
Looking forward to my annual
visit to La Brea [stop]

[blah blah blah
. . . munch munch munch]

Sincerely yours
J.R. Thunderlizard

* * * * *

My love

The world has changed
And it has not
It changed when you were born
It changed again when I met you

Light switches left & right went 
On & off
Off & on
Yesterday today tomorrow

And see, here
A birthday history is imbedded
The handprint in stone is yours