Tyrannosaurus REX!
Eats through your bones with one little SNAP!
Juggles your head for a moment in its tiny ARMS
That are bigger than your THIGHS,
Catches it on the tip of its TONGUE,
Swallows it with a contented SIGH.
Tyro Rexus hops onto a log,
Balances for a moment,
Sneezes, wipes its nose on a passing Ant Eater,
Wonders about the Future.
Will there be spaceships?
Vacuum-packed and liquidised humans?
And how will it fit into a spacesuit?
When it travels to the stars,
Will other races see it as some sort of weird alien?
Tyro Rexus laughs.
The very idea!
An Alien, indeed!
Aliens have lots of teeth,
Eat everything that moves,
And are indestuctible MONSTERS!
Tyro Rexus smiles to himself,
Thinks of his children,
Wonders who’s done the washing up,
Bites a Pterodactyl in half
And saunters home, humming.
5/12/07
