04-30-2024, 11:08 AM
You are a pig,
Andrewsarchus.
A boar is better.
It doesn’t bite off its fetters
like it’s a trifling matter.
O, fabled beast of the middle Eocene,
though your table manners were horrid
your mating no blur lurid
but a drawn out bestial scene,
we made your likeness de-extincted,
with VC money flown unstinted -
because it’s there, as Mallory hinted,
we’ll make the Holocene
a beautiful panorama,
a live diorama,
of all the ages of the earth.
Not just fill pages on the birth
of disappeared species
known from their feces
and from their bone,
but plant a beast in every home.
Andrewsarchus.
A boar is better.
It doesn’t bite off its fetters
like it’s a trifling matter.
O, fabled beast of the middle Eocene,
though your table manners were horrid
your mating no blur lurid
but a drawn out bestial scene,
we made your likeness de-extincted,
with VC money flown unstinted -
because it’s there, as Mallory hinted,
we’ll make the Holocene
a beautiful panorama,
a live diorama,
of all the ages of the earth.
Not just fill pages on the birth
of disappeared species
known from their feces
and from their bone,
but plant a beast in every home.