Bewildering Stories

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A Long Time Ago

by Kevin L. Donihe

we flying reptilian things
warmed our hides
on sun-baked rocks
before taking
to the sky
in numbers.

primal stuff
(later packaged
as spam)
spewed from fissures
in the earth
below.

we landed;
a voice from the sky
said eat.

we did
and thus became
Man.


Copyright © 2003 by Kevin L. Donihe