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”
Copyright © | Year Posted 2011

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September 25, 2011 at 7:43 AM
Very funny. Good work Syd. Tony
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