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I'm the last dinosaur left,
awaiting my inevitable death.
We ruled all the Earth,
we grazed and we hunted all that we wanted.
But now the lights are down low on life's stage,
preparing the dawn of a new kind of age.
Microbial extremophiles and mammals,
it's your time to shine.
Peek out from your burrows, my small furry friends,
and make your hushed entrance.

And I hope someday
you get to be
the last of your kind,
just like me.
Maybe you'll laugh,
maybe you'll cry,
but your meteor comes,
I hope you at least know why.

Though all my friends were all gone in a flash,
and my favorite trees are now piles of ash,
still it's strange to be something rather than nothing,
so not much has changed.
Remember us fondly as the giants you feared
who never saw it coming.

And I hope someday
you get to be
the last of your kind,
just like me.
Maybe you'll laugh,
maybe you'll cry,
but your meteor comes,
I hope you at least know why.

I eat the plants and the plants eat me,
every rain cloud returns to the sea,
the sun shines on you, the sun shines on me,
and that is the way it will always be.
The circle goes 'round with or without me.

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from Anthropocene Blues, released July 10, 2020

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Samuel Lockridge is a singer-songwriter, producer, sound designer, and theatre artist based in Lexington, Kentucky.

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