day labor

those dinosaurs
   never seem to
      get tired
   of pulling garbage trucks

up-hill.

   or pushing
      heavy yachts through
   stormy

seas.

   or lifting
      shiny-surfaced
   pterodactyls above the

clouds.

but one day
   soon, they’ll be
      extinct
   again &

   we’ll be
      running
   out of

gas.