Monday, September 1, 2008

A year ago I was in Arizona.

Driving up to see the Grand Canyon.
Occasionally there are scenic overlooks.
You pull over to look.
And you see the sheer cliffs.
The striated geology.
Then you read what the National Parks Service has to say about those rocks.
Formed billions of years ago.
That level there formed billions more years ago.
Billions.
I wondered.
At the time.
What would happen to those signs.
If a "creationist" were elected president.
Would they be re-written to describe.
The longer finger of god remaking the landscape.
His whim. To create a canyon overnight.
What will happen.
When a moose eating, polar-bear denying, shale shill is.
Vice president?

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