Ice Age

IF THE TRUTH BE KNOWN

Something happened before the ice cream man came

to town and all the earth froze over

speculation intimidation and other words

screaming off the pages some hyphenated

punctuated with exclamation marks

long before commas and full stops were invented

many describing worlds of words bigger than marmalade

and with more letters than a pillar box

on the last posting day before Christmas

so when the fishing smacks went down

some say that dinosaurs roamed the earth

and different types of humanoids evolved

but shut the door what really happened

if the truth be known nobody really knows

except for the fact that something went very badly wrong

demonic degenerates dignitaries with holes in heads

shrunken brains an unevolved species of plant eating mammals

living in the canopy of trees others underground some in caves

a warring world of hand walking acrobats

clamouring to eke out a basic existence

screaming without words self strangulation

an unintelligible language of frustration

pretending to be something that was never meant to be

individuals living in a counterfeit universe

the copy-cat intellectuals of the pre-dawn

fighting for the right to be heard to be seen

to be who they were wrongly told that they were meant to be

the parallel universe planting thoughts upside down inside out

outlandish as a troglodyte on heat

who would have thought that eternity

had anything to do with all their mess

but time or the concept of it that we now know and use

the time that we keep and rely upon didn't yet exist

the different ones came and went some stayed

buried forever in the quick setting sand

for us for you and I to discover rediscover dig out of the clay

for us to adjudicate upon contemplate and marvel at today

but even in a perfect world not many barber shop quartets

butchers bakers or cake makers would ever find the truth

03082019/DN