11-30-2021, 09:35 AM
Ah, my dear departed
Tethys sea!
How grand you used to be
before India
crashed into Asia
and you ceased to be.
Ah, my dear departed molluscs
trapped high in the Himalaya
how you'd scuttle on the floor of an ocean
that is now only a notion -
you never got to evolve into multidimensional beings
singing tra-la-la-la-lalaya,
seeing a Stalinist purge
or a German offensive surge....
let this poem be your dirge.
Tethys sea!
How grand you used to be
before India
crashed into Asia
and you ceased to be.
Ah, my dear departed molluscs
trapped high in the Himalaya
how you'd scuttle on the floor of an ocean
that is now only a notion -
you never got to evolve into multidimensional beings
singing tra-la-la-la-lalaya,
seeing a Stalinist purge
or a German offensive surge....
let this poem be your dirge.