Hush in the assonance of dusk,
Herbert concluded. When I am
Gone what will you do? / Who will write
And draw for you? asked Silverstein.
The experts on eurypterids
Puzzle sea scorpion fossils,
Wondering how they could have been
So successful then quietly
Extinct—possibly the record
Is incomplete, or possibly
The gigantism enabling
Their long, globe-girdling migrations
Also doomed them. Other humans
Spend less time studying the world
And more time talking back to it,
As if it ever talked to them.
They apostrophize like crazy,
Addressing unresponsiveness
As a way of finding comfort,
As a way of making displays
To try to impress each other.
This may be part of their success,
To bravely address the cosmos,
This trait that may also doom them.
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