Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Goliath Takes a Fall




Goliath Takes a Fall


Tom channels his scimitar-beaked ancestor,
stalking chickens, other turkeys,
goats and dog, axe-bearing farmer;
he IS the savanna’s top predator,
biting through felid cervical vertebrae,
can’t fly, but doesn’t need to,
till Dr. Shotgun
truncates his anomalous reign,
pitting 20th century technology
against Pleistocene evolution.

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