Sturgeons and Gar

Go to show that you don’t
Always need to adapt.

Extinction won’t always
Erase those slow to change.

Being a gar has worked
Well enough for so long,

Genomes that haven’t budged
In ninety million years

Or more produce more fish
Just like the gar before.

A sturgeon doesn’t just look
Antediluvian.

A sturgeon surviving
Now could have survived then.

The rest of life changes
Much faster as a rule,

But what has worked for gar
Forever works for gar.

Remember that next time
You’re trying to adapt.