Reading About Dinosaurs

Reading books about dinosaurs is oddly comforting, The world on fire now, the world on fire then,

Twinning perhaps, One flame a rock from space

Exploding onto earth One flame

The earth itself Exploding because of us

Mass extinction is not new, Certainly,

However as far as I can tell No other species has ever actively

Done themselves in, As quickly, as deeply, as fully

As we have, are doing, will keep doing; We stay busy,

Digging up the bones Learning nothing

Using the fossil juice To pollute and abuse,

This comfort is strange, I’ll admit it; They were here for 180 million years

We won’t be Spoiler alert.

Jenny Justice 2019

Jenny Justice is a mom, Sociology instructor, and writer. You can follow her on Medium and at Jenny Justice, Writer. She has been recognized as a Top Writer on Medium in Poetry, Parenting, Reading, Education, Books, Racism, Feminism and Climate Change, so far. You can follow her poetry at Justice Poetic.