Luxury trap

"One of history’s few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations.”-Yuval Noah Harari

“Look at all those chickens!”-A young biologist on Vine, pointing at geese

humans live with dinosaurs

domesticated and fattened

ones with hormones in small pens

we eat of their menstrual cycles

and breasts

all I’ve ever been able to do

is walk through chestnut

treeless forests

and try to fossilize moments in amber

memory so the remaining oak and maple might never die

even it I roots them

if means grow with

how have we come to need

dinosaurs so desperately?

if a meteor smashed into us

our dinonuggets would be burnt