Clinton Van Inman’s poetic observations. 

Extinct
By Clinton Van Inman

Sixty million years ago in a wink
An asteroid crashed to Earth in a clink
Wiped out the dinosaurs in a blink
And made everything else go extinct
Except the hairy one who learned to think
Now he’s called the missing link.

Was it fate or chance for brains to replace
Brute brawn and bulk that fell from grace?
But if the asteroid had missed its footrace
There would be some other creature in place
Perhaps some reptilian one with a scaly face
Proclaiming he too was from a chosen race.