Reminiscences of a Dinosaur

REMINISCENCES OF A DINOSAUR Nothing really changes; each one thinks himself Slightly better than others of similar type : “Oh, he’s too fat ; she’s gonna be left on the shelf”. . . . . I hear all this daily and it’s just hype. “He’s a bit of a dinosaur” -- an insult to his ears -- To show inability to modernize the way he thinks. Yet the dinos ruled supreme for a hundred mill years Humans for less than a million -- couple o’ blinks And another thing, dinos had feelings of superiority too They were just as human as you and me They probably used to stand around saying “It’s true, He’s a bit of an invertebrate” -- as an insult (the same, you see?) I dunno, but invertebrates probably in turn felt mellow By referring to their forebears, and then Mocked disparagingly at some inferior fellow As “a bit of a plant” or “one of the amoeba men”