31
May
under glass atop a velvety pedestal
Speaking of turds, dinosaurs produced a lot of them. I’m sure the Smithsonian has drawers-full of coprolites stashed away in their attic.
The dinosaurs were prolific coprolite generators because there were no toilets in the Mesozoic era. So every turd produced by every dinosaur ever born had a chance to fossilize, sitting out there in the sun like that. You can’t say that about our turds.
In fact, I could almost number the turds I’ve manufactured that have the slightest chance of turning into coprolites. It’s certainly a low number; every one I’ve produced in the wild has been memorable, in that I remember it.
Which is kind of sad, really. Scientists eons from now will have scant chance of deriving any clues from my shit. That gives me pause. And it’s almost impossible that a turd of mine will be fossilized and under glass atop a velvety pedestal one day.
I don’t think it’s too much to ask that one of my turds ends up under glass atop a velvety pedestal.
