March 23, 2020

How to Chicken Out

Dinosaurs extinct?  Hogwash.
I've got a dozen modified dinosaurs
in my front yard right now.

Yesterday, I made banana-nut muffins.
The recipe called for one large
modified dinosaur egg.  I used two small
ones, because some of my girls are, well,

small.

Sometimes smaller is better.  Sometimes
smaller is how you survive, like when the giant
space rock hits, sending up a dust cloud
that kills off all the big guys' food,

that kills off all the big guys.

Sometimes smaller is how you and your
kind tuck yourselves into this nook here and
that cranny over there, and you ride it out,
feeding your babies with what's left, and then

with what comes after.

You change with the changing times. And you
and your kin, you make it! You make it big.  You
make it through the bottleneck of apocalypse,
because you had already figured it out, that

sometimes smaller is better.

And now you're livin' large,
in my front yard. 
Dinosaurs extinct.  Hogwash.