Two siblings parted in a late
Cretaceous forest
and both prospered
and proliferated
and radiated.
Rather than let a surplus rot
primates gorge
and squirrels hoard.
If squirrels were big and brainy
and we were not,
perhaps
they’d find it easier than us
to leave the pie in the cupboard
the tar in the sand
the oil in the shale
the coal in the crust.
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