12-09-2020, 12:18 PM
Where are their Bones?
A Roman wrote,
Out of Africa
always something new.
He may have meant those novel beasts
he saw in the Arena
fighting for their lives
surprised by crowds and jeers
and sharpened steel.
Some were unknown both then and now
extinct within man’s dominance
too young to fossilize...
where are their bones?
Dead flesh of species
thrown to dogs and swine
served as delicacies at Nero’s table
but where are the bones?
Were they ground to meal
perhaps incorporated
in cheap statuary or do they exist
in some sunken catacomb
worked to nitre by the Tiber
lost even to forgetting?
A Roman wrote,
Out of Africa
always something new.
He may have meant those novel beasts
he saw in the Arena
fighting for their lives
surprised by crowds and jeers
and sharpened steel.
Some were unknown both then and now
extinct within man’s dominance
too young to fossilize...
where are their bones?
Dead flesh of species
thrown to dogs and swine
served as delicacies at Nero’s table
but where are the bones?
Were they ground to meal
perhaps incorporated
in cheap statuary or do they exist
in some sunken catacomb
worked to nitre by the Tiber
lost even to forgetting?
Non-practicing atheist