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Writer's pictureZachary Brett Charles

Luxury trap

Updated: Dec 31, 2022

"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


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