The unicorn said to the rhino,
"You're fat, and your horn doesn't shino."
The rhino shot back,
"Existence you lack,
You're fake, and as dead as a dino."
If I had a dinosaur suit
I would stomp around and loudly toot
stomp stomp stomp toot toot stomp toot
If would make me proud, and I would hoot
if I had a dinosaur suit
Rex is always doing something over-the-top
We ask him to slow down, we beg him to stop.
He dresses whimsically at the sound of a drop.
For the fourth-of-July he was over-the-top.
He came into sight, and I did a genuflect.
Isn’t it enough that he is a giant t-rex?
No, he wants to do something we do not expect.
He gave us a wave, their neighbor, T-Rex.
So give me a word
That's not far from heard
And worth that's closer than sun.
And I'll give you a son,
That isn't very long
But your heart will
Beat like a drum.
If dinosaurs were back
And there was an attack
I'd defend you till there were none.
Operation Dinosaur
Will had helped our Processor
Workforce says this is too old!
And this isn't our fault!
This website is very rigid
Old and new
Transforming, bridge it
But will you be building
New website
With old technology
When the content and the data
Modern human apology
Updatedness of data
The quality of content
Be how, excuse me, gotta
And what is in this sense event
Feel sorry for your attention
Feel dodgy at weird domes
Shall easy be comprehension
And shall be the garden gnomes
A dinosaur, two tons or three,
Heard tell from a mammal quite wee:
“Why, one day your tar
Shall burn in a car
That’s driven by creatures like me!”
My poor little dinosaur, sorry that you are no more.
History is history drawn by observation to attract
Up and down motion
The thought of the old Dinosaur Escalators at Macy’s Herald Square
The old fossil’s still work
It gets Macy’s customers from selling floor to selling floor
They still work for sure
I know, I worked at the Macy’s Herald Square Tower for 38 Years on the 13th Floor of the Corporate Executive Office
Those old escalators were established since Macy’s Herald Square was built in brick and mortal
I can assure you I am not a fixture, and wasn’t around when Macy’s Herald Square was put together
Let’s just say I made history working for Macy’s, but I could be considered a Legend
However, I was around during the real MIRACLE ON 34th of the
MACY’S and GIMBEL’S era
The old escalators are still in effect and they have history of their own
No mystery
The old escalators are tour attractions to see in being accompanied in Macy’s Herald Square past and current of old and new.
dinosaur footprints
hanging on a tree
orange unsuspecting
then the great fall
running down the road
and they’re gone
yearly distant ghosts
Dinosaurs once ruled the earth
And their bones are found all over.
They're in the ground
Just waiting around
For some paleontologist to discover.
There were thin ones, and tall ones,
And fat ones, and small ones,
But they all lacked one basic requirement.
Though all were distinct,
They all went extinct
'cause they didn't plan well for retirement.
before life begins
we accrue fictional sins
so guilt always wins
lest any deem themselves free
to alter reality
dollars and distance
do not measure existence
despite persistence
constant debt all but assured
within this credit card world
is living better
starting off as a debtor
shame's main abettor
always in the negative
when all else is relative
to death all succumb
becoming what we become
in part and in sum
being soon enough degrades
until last remembrance fades
like the dinosaur
the future won't fear our roar
care what we abhor
leaving only the remains
produced by once human brains
Go sit in the orange dinosaur! Grandma said sternly.
Yippee! Her grandson shrieked with joy.
She gave him the look but he did not see it.
Her daughter was not fooled one whit.
Some punishment, she said to her mother.
Letting him swing in the orange dinosaur swing.
It’s what I would have let you do, her mother replied.
And you would have figured it out.
She could not argue with that.
how long have we laid here
side by side
for an epoch's breath
of starlight in a roving universe
enchanted moments
see a night of a million years
until day slowly unearths us
from our play
but clinking and scuffing
distant voices loudening
muffled soon unmuffling
to a crisp and a brightness
the yellow hurts our eyes
how dare they disturb us
you are carefully wrapped
and put into a box
loaded and driven away
they are still digging around me
with their small shiny blades
and tickly brushes
I thought we'd be together always
we were not far from eternity
we had made friends with forever
I can still feel your scales beside me
I wonder how the other dinosaurs fared
in The Great Bang
rising from shadows
sunlight through window
a knight without armor
apparition in the city
time to celebrate and rejoice
a get-together
endless dreams
miles counted number turn
my many incarnations
to the next screen
the day comes too soon
stillness of late morning
soft awakening
my friend waits on another table
smiles and says hello
come back come back
the backyard like dreams
from a book I bought
painted in shades yellows and greens
a breeze sweeps the land
fades into darkness
glistening under streetlights
silence in depts of night
I rise from shadows of dreams
Smaller in the rearview mirror
the past retreats from view
Perspective changing rearranging
the old supplanted new
Fading in a dying focus
dust beyond the wind
Blowing wild beyond our memory
—fates forgotten hymn
(Dreamsleep: December, 2022)
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