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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