Key: A minor
Verse 1
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I think the political and social chaos we
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are seeing on every side reflects an underlying
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All species are doomed from
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individuals, evolution did not come to
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a reverent halt with
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Homo sapiens.
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We have
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the technologies to recreate a flawed artifact
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an d to produce improved and
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variegated models designed for
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space conditions.
Perhaps there is still time,
back to the church, the
home, and the family.
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American virtues that made this
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this concrete great again.
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G
If I may be allowed a flight of whimsy involving
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articulate dinosaurs,
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fellow reptiles, I do not hesitate to
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tell you that we face grave problems.
I do not hesitate to tell you that
we have the answer.
Size is the answer.
Increase size.
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There are those who say size is
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not the answer.
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There are those who even propose
our pure reptilian strain with mammali
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an amalgamations and crossbreeding.
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And I say to you that if the only way I could survive
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was by mating with egg -eating rats,
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then I would choose not to survive.
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But we will survive.
size and in numbers,
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an d we will continue to dominate this planet
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million years.
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Armored models thump their tails in earth
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Herbivorous dens wallow and splash
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Carnivores bear their huge,
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fang -dripping streamers of saliva in approval.
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But a wise old dine turns sadly from the
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TV and addresses his offspring.
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We are ugly, idiot, bellowing beasts.
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the size of a walnut.
Where can this end?
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In a natural history museum,
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our bones gawked out by pimply adolescents.
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Say, I wonder how big his prick was.
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Their turn will come.
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Back to the home and the fam ily.
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the one direction you can't go is back.
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Dolphins lived on land at one time.
air -breathing lungs.
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Now that they have returned to the sea,
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it might be handy to reclaim their lost gills.
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An evolutionary step that involves
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biologic alterations is irretrievable.
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We must now make such a step
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if we are to survive at all.
and it had better be good.
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transition from time into space
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D
Such al terations are already
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manifest.
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bones and teeth in the cervix.
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you lose it.
a weightless state.
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So what does the end result look like?
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Well, rather like an oc topus or a jellyfish.
Beau
spent hours every morning
by lowering his chin just so,
often his valet would carry out
armfuls of crumpled denim,
our failures.
So we can imagine the cosmic
butler
carrying out bundles of unworkable
monstrosities are failures.
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