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.
