Dingo the Dissident

THE BLOG OF DISQUIET : Qweir Notions, an uncommonplace-book from the Armpit of Diogenes, binge-thinker jottings since 2008 .

Monday 16 April 2012

The Tomb of the Unknown

In the world's largest
and most prestigious Pet Cemetery
on the Ile d'Asnières just outside Paris,
only Mario Vargas Llosa mentions
a Tomb of the Unknown Dog.
He probably was joking, if not sneering.

Not even on Mauritius
is there a Tomb of the Unknown Dodo.
Nor - strange to say - anywhere
is there a Tomb of the Unknown Penis,
unless you (mischievous and not god-fearing)
include minarets.

Nor will evolved simians place flowers
on a Memorial to the Terrible
Unknown Hominid.
If they do, their end will be as
bleak and ineluctable as ours.

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