"Mammunt Americanum"
O' Mastodon, Mastodon, no pardon,
Become extinct many years ago!
Natural causes have come and gone,
And Mastodons have gone.
Ice Ages have come and gone.
Climate has often changed the lawn.
No "special offers" for the biggies.
They denied adjusting like other species.
Wide range of choices for many on Earth!
Progress and catastrophe -
Two sides of a fortune.
The Mastodons denied adjust to survive.
All what is left: are fossils, the bone,
And skeletons from ten thousand years ago.
Midwestern giants proudly stand on display
In museums from the past to the current day.
Unfortunately, they cannot play
And plunge the teeth in shrubs and trees.
They do not browse between meadows and herbs.
But they still fascinating us
The same as many million years in the past.
The history is full of things that lost.
Archaeology solves the puzzles that last.
The fame of prehistoric beast
Attracts the worldwide scientific interest.
The museums are telling us
The natural story of the oldest animal
To explore the land of Native Americans.
(Tomshinsky@2024)
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