Devolution

Let the Knights of the Round Table rise again

To wage war with brandished sword

From a time when men were men

The knight-errant slayed the mythic beast

Disinter Sir Lancelot to hear his opinion on the use of tomahawk cruise missiles

Or nuclear proliferation

Raid the apothecary

And loose the viper’s venom upon the sheltered world

Waking the long forgotten titans

And ushering in the reign of Zeus

Forget not the unforgettable

In expecting the mobiüs to always flip back

Unsplit the atom

And reforest the desert

Put the polar ice caps in the freezer

Before rearming the Wild West gunner

Sending him to hunt the wooly mammoth

Let the saber tooth rule congress

For Anno Domini cedes bit control of yesteryear

Recongregate the diaspora

Under the westward setting sun

I want to be a colonist

And survey the Louisiana purchase

Grind the great pyramids to sand

And see Niagara before it fell

Sharecrop the future

Once you dig your own well

Running your Hummer on whale oil

And go to the moon in a 4 horsepower carriage

Debbie does a dinosaur

Sylvester Stallone meets the primordial soup

You want to fix the past?

Devolution is the only way.

© 2008 Eugene Aarons-Cooke