long
ago

in
another

expired
lifetime

i
diligently

chipped
flint

popping
shards

flaking
away

tiny­
bits

using
tools

fashioning
uneven

discreet
blades

to
manufa­cture

once
off

Clovis
points

to
skin

now
sadly

extinct
enorm­ous

woolly
mammoths

it
was

a
point

well
made

Music Selection:
Opening Scene
Stanley Kubrick's
2001 Space Odyssey
Richard Strauss
Thus Spoke Zarathustra

jbm
Oakland
6/1/12