Kunci: A minor
Verse 1
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I think the political and social chaos we
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are seeing on every side reflects an underlying
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All species are doomed from
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individuals, evolution did not come to
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a reverent halt with
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Homo sapiens.
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We have
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the technologies to recreate a flawed artifact
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an d to produce improved and
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variegated models designed for
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space conditions.
Perhaps there is still time,
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is this being done or even con sidered,
back to the church, the
home, and the family.
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American virtues that made this
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country great and can make
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this concrete great again.
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If I may be allowed a flight of whimsy involving
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articulate dinosaurs,
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fellow reptiles, I do not hesitate to
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tell you that we face grave problems.
I do not hesitate to tell you that
we have the answer.
Size is the answer.
Increase size.
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There are those who say size is
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not the answer.
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There are those who even propose
our pure reptilian strain with mammali
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an amalgamations and crossbreeding.
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And I say to you that if the only way I could survive
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was by mating with egg -eating rats,
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then I would choose not to survive.
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But we will survive.
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We will increase both in
size and in numbers,
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an d we will continue to dominate this planet
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million years.
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Bigger is better and biggest is best.
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Armored models thump their tails in earth
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Herbivorous dens wallow and splash
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Carnivores bear their huge,
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fang -dripping streamers of saliva in approval.
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But a wise old dine turns sadly from the
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TV and addresses his offspring.
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it's the end of the line.
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We are ugly, idiot, bellowing beasts.
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Some of us are 60 feet long with a brain
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the size of a walnut.
Where can this end?
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In a natural history museum,
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our bones gawked out by pimply adolescents.
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Say, I wonder how big his prick was.
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Their turn will come.
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Back to the home and the fam ily.
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the one direction you can't go is back.
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Dolphins lived on land at one time.
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We know that because they have
air -breathing lungs.
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Now that they have returned to the sea,
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it might be handy to reclaim their lost gills.
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No glut, clump, blighty.
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An evolutionary step that involves
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biologic alterations is irretrievable.
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We must now make such a step
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if we are to survive at all.
and it had better be good.
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I have predicted that the
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transition from time into space
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will involve biologic alterations.
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Such al terations are already
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manifest.
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Astronauts stand to lose their
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bones and teeth in the cervix.
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you lose it.
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A skeleton has no function in
a weightless state.
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So what does the end result look like?
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Well, rather like an oc topus or a jellyfish.
Beau
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Brummel, the restoration dandy,
spent hours every morning
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putting exactly the right
by lowering his chin just so,
often his valet would carry out
armfuls of crumpled denim,
our failures.
So we can imagine the cosmic
butler
carrying out bundles of unworkable
monstrosities are failures.
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