AN ACCELERATED ICE AGE
An arctic Vesuvian ash
buries the City alive.
Across from the Museum of Natural History,
a wooly homo sapiens stalks his trophy,
his mammoth Mercedes SUV,
frozen in its tracks.
Alternating pick and brush
he labors to liberate his beloved,
meticulous as the archeologist
intent on excavating his priceless dinosaur.
What if this time when the world defrosts
a new era ensues where poetic justice
out-maneuvers the automotive industry
and the mystical Mesozoic skeleton,
not the exhausting chassis,
roars to life once more?