Quite recently to be exact, Within a billion years, in fact. Some time before the glacial drift Had given the planet's face a lift, A group of shameless molecules Broke all the inorganic rules And (C.I.O. epitomized!) Spontaneously organized.


Poems for Penguins and Other Lyrical Lapses, Biology, Greenburg. 1941


Quite recently to be exact, Within a billion years, in fact. Some time before the glacial drift Had given the planet's face a lift, A group of...

Quite recently to be exact, Within a billion years, in fact. Some time before the glacial drift Had given the planet's face a lift, A group of...

Quite recently to be exact, Within a billion years, in fact. Some time before the glacial drift Had given the planet's face a lift, A group of...

Quite recently to be exact, Within a billion years, in fact. Some time before the glacial drift Had given the planet's face a lift, A group of...