Evolution

Jazzed a trifle—Apologies to Langdon Smith

By Neil McConlogue.

When you were part of an elephant’s tusk

In the Palezoic time,

And I rode round in a walrus mouth

’Mid the piscatorial slime,

Or skittered with many a caudal flip

Thru the depths of a salmon fen—

Our hearts were rife with that dentine life,