Freezer Mice - the Prequel
[The earliest known true mammal and hence man’s
earliest ancestor was a creature very similar in both
size and appearance to a modern day shrew]
*
The years since the rock hit are sixty-six million,
the dinosaurs died and the sky was vermillion.
Finally, out from the shadows, there came
rodent like creatures that look much the same
as many that still crawl the Earth to this day,
surviving that rock that had hurtled our way.
*
But fallout ensued and the skies filled with dust
and the journey from mice into men took a thrust
but these tiny steps to mix up nature’s law
began many millions of years before
When boulders from space hit primeval shores
And wee bitty things mixed with huge dinosaurs
*
They’d travelled in convoy, arriving in droves
Though most of the others were not wearing clothes
And though one had suffered a crash landing blip
It seemed they had given their chaser the slip
And as they slept, enveloped in ice
they might have imagined they’d wake in a trice
But Antarctic ice would see no diminution
And safe landed colleagues would face evolution
Who might have guessed what ‘mice’ could become
Or that the mice in the ice were not done?
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