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Image Description: A Silurian mask

By Will Shaw

Felt tip cave paintings
Suggest a mind regressing
To the dawn of man.

A shot in the dark;
The reptilian chiming
Of monsters called off.

The thermostat’s heat
Masks a human extortion
Bartering for science.

Tell us what you want
And interspecies friendship
May yet be achieved.

Ancient pesticides
Will create a modern plague
On the human blight!

Bodies are dropping
But the apes with microscopes
Are racing for life.

Angry men with guns
Will not find a solution
For coexistence.

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