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24th century man
lost in the river  of eternity
washed up from an eddy
in the 6000th century

he knew things would be different
but the bee people
from 1 million A.D.
surprised him
their colonization of the past
implacable and thorough
eradicated  primates
as  a matter of prudence

the ant people
from a few million years downriver
had not reached them yet