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Archaeopteryx

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For Romney Wordsworth.

When they don’t need or want you anymore, you don’t go gentle into that good night…not you. That’s not your style. But as you realize you’re becoming a fossil, and reflecting on your “coulda, shoulda, woulda” list, give yourself a little credit for the swath you cut, the swash you buckled, and allow yourself a satisfied tee-hee at the way you will mystify future generations.

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Thought I’d rise from the ashes
But I wasn’t the one to do that
I get no push no liftoff
My feet are flat

So I gotta run out of the darkness
Without being fast
(A race I can’t afford to lose)
I’m not a roadrunner but I live and die in the same shoes.

There was no one to save me
No one to let me go
And I drew the short stick
Like an archaeopteryx

They call me a middleman
A coelacanth in bike pants
A Lilliputian dino-sort of
The strangest duck you ever saw
I lived my life with my nose to the grindstone
Then buried in limestone or stuck in tar
Another fossil ossified
You philosophize about why I died

There was no one to save me
No one to let me go
And I drew the short stick
Like an archaeopteryx

I never migrated (I hesitated)
I never flew to the sun
They made me obsolete
Can’t compete, can’t work and can’t speak
Could you predict my predicament?
Mister, I don’t think so.

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from fin​(​n), released July 7, 2023

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The whooping went on, and in about a minute I come a-booming down on a cut bank with SMOKY GHOSTS OF BIG TREES on it, and the current throwed me off to the left and shot by, amongst a lot of snags that fairly roared, the current was tearing by them so swift. - Mark Twain “Huckleberry Finn” ... more

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