by Harrison Glaze

“Richardson’s ground squirrels are threatening to overrun Minot, North Dakota. The city is trying to fight back.”
—The Associated Press

Search the world over, and you’ll find,
Whatever route you tour on,
The appellation “human kind”
Is strictly oxymoron.

They’ve lined their plains with trash. They’ve shot
Our neighbors to extinction.
Their leaders prove their “higher thought”
A dubious distinction.

And so our stratagem begins,
Our cause a simple theme:
The humans can’t self govern, and
Earth needs a new regime.

The age of man was finite. Not
The epoch of the squirrel!
This minute, friends, it’s Minot, but
Next minute it’s the world.