A Book of Lives by Edwin Morgan

Author:Edwin Morgan [Morgan, Edwin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781847778246
Publisher: Carcanet
Published: 2011-11-15T05:00:00+00:00

BEAU You will never get me to abhor

A body billions of us have laboured to build up

Into a fortress of interlocking harmonies.

GORGO Oh what a high horse! I never said

‘Abhorrent’, I said ‘boring’, not the same.

Take a dinosaur. Go on, take a dinosaur,

Tons of muscle, rampant killing-machine,

Lord of the savannahs, roars, roars

To make all tremble, but no, not anger,

Not hunger fuels the blast, but pain –

Look closer, watch that hirpling hip

That billions of my ancestors have made cancerous,

Deliciously, maddeningly, eye-catchingly cancerous.

Not the end of the dinosaurs, I don’t claim that,

But a tiny intimation of the end

Of power, function, movement, and the beauty

That you would say attends such things.

Dinosaurs on crutches, how about that?

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