dinosaurs are go!
how they got here
I don’t know
but they’re swapping the swamps
for big city romps
neon sign dining
and downtown chomps

ain’t it just like T Rex
to pose and flex
before it wrecks
the shopping mall and the multiplex?

just listen to the roars
of Pterosaur
as it pterosoars
then pturns to pterrify
the ptraders on the ptrading floor

and heaven help those puny cops
in the armoured car that bangs and pops
as it runs up on sirens and fatally stops
by Ankylosaurus and Triceratops

the channel news helicopter
going for the wow factor
acts as distractor
for Velociraptor

while palaeontologists
are pilloried as apologists
by rancorous news anchors
and columnists

then … everything falls quiet
TOO quiet
nobody expected anything like it
the dinosaurs
resorting
to a more lawful diet

ten years later
everything’s straighter
Allosaurus working as elevator
Apple signed up with Baryonyx
to model hot brands of mobile phonics
Kimmel makes a fuss
with Parasaurolophus
saying Hey man it’s Paris for all of us
DJ Archaeopteryx
has feathers in the mix
with Aaron Dessner and Taylor Swift

but a dawn will break in the big city swelter
when they wake to the sun on the old river delta
and rising as one they’ll shiver their tails
to sweep all the people over the rails
those audacious, cretaceous, reptilian heirs
reclaiming a world that once was theirs