Evolution
Today I
read about dinosaurs
and about
the earliest ancestor
of the
Internet in 1969.
Sixteen
years later
there
were six .com’s.
By 2010 that
number had grown
to 84 million
around the world.
During
that time Jack Horner,
flunked out
of school and stuck
his
paleontolic thumb into Montana
fossilized
mud pies. The plum
he pulled
out reversed the thinking
of the
scientific world regarding dinosaurs.
No longer
reptiles with cold blood
they are parents
of the hummingbird.
As for
the Internet I turn on
each day
before breakfast to read
the news,
how long will it be
before
paper becomes obsolete
and
environmentalists no longer
scream, “Woodsmen
spare
that tree”
nor obstructionists
drive
nails into fir trunks to thwart
chain saws
and save our modern
dinosaur,
the spotted owl?
—Donnell
Hunter
15
March 2012
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