Monday, January 08, 2007

Stegosaurus

Humanized by the secret caress of children

The caramelized dinosaur at the playground


Looms over the seesaw’s chewing rhythm

Like an offering. In my dream I decipher


The split of the many words for footstep, a jungles

Tears, reassembling them into


Carbon dated mechanics, a computer print out

Of fleeing herds, the desperate and doomed


Wrapped up together in words like eon and love.


At my end of extinction I’m a little droopy eyed,

Waiting outside the museum for a cab, some


Purpose, or just lingering with not much else

To motivate, perhaps masticating a cud


Wait for the world and its children

To fawn over my reassembled corpse.

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