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T-Rex

By well-wisher

Tue, 26 Mar 2013
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Tyrannosaurus;
like old Tyrants you have gone.
Did you hear the Greek chorus
of raptors and Pteradons?
Once king of the carnivores
now a big jigsaw of bone;
like mighty thunder was your roar
now you’re a silent xylophone.

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