featuring huge dinosaur models of iron and concrete.
The inside of the Iguanodon was big enough
to host a dinner for leading scientists
on the day of the grand opening by Queen Victoria.
Pet dinosaurs
Small plastic Tyrannosaurus Rexes
terrorize Kens and Barbies
delighting small boys everywhere.
Rexy stomps up the halls
to munch on sisters’ ankles
leaving an imaginary trail
of blood and gore.
The perspective of time
History mocks fools and great minds
convinced of their own greatnesses.
Things larger than life grow smaller
as they slip through the narrow neck
of the hourglass of time
in which each tiny grain of sand
is convinced of its own greatness
and the modernity of its own.
We should be more fascinated by the fascinations of our
children. Our cultural obsession with dinasaurs began with
commercial and philosophical motives.
Owens was a widely respected comparative anatomist and
palaeontologist and greatly opposed to the idea that one species
could be transmuted into another, as claimed by Lamarck, and to
evolution by natural selection as claimed by Charles Darwin.
We should be more fascinated by the fascinations of our children. Our cultural obsession with dinasaurs began with commercial and philosophical motives.
Owens was a widely respected comparative anatomist and palaeontologist and greatly opposed to the idea that one species could be transmuted into another, as claimed by Lamarck, and to evolution by natural selection as claimed by Charles Darwin.
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