LITTLE LIZARD
“The Tyrant Lizard, the most incredible monster in history. Sign this release. Anything happens to you, we’re not responsible. Those dinosaurs are hungry.” Ray Bradbury, A Sound of Thunder
I am a little lizard
in a time of final, feral dinosaurs
they shut down the children’s library Mr Bradbury,
where I first read you
i think that they imagine
if they lock the doors
they burn ideas
children it seems
do not need, should
not have
their minds expanded
no sublime terrors to
enrich the joy and horror
of their being
if I ask them regarding
the evolution of mind,
the fulfilling of the species
they tell me
this is not my place
this is not the time
bite
and swallow
there is no legend of a carnivore
greater than the nation
and my dead end is
a supreme blessing
to those who dictate
the terms of all illiterate life.