Fame Everlasting

“Two eminent scientists say the human race is likely to become extinct at its own hand within 100 years as it exhausts resources through a population explosion and unbridled consumption.”

www.earthweek.com and The Plain Dealer, June 26, 2010

Just as the beasts that have gone before us –

Like the dodo and tyrannosaurus –

We homo sapiens, some people think,

In a few decades, we’ll all be extinct.

Two scientists say that it now appears

In ninety-five, maybe one hundred years

The extra-terrestrials will commence

Referring to humans in the past tense.

So, I’m thinking if I get hopping

And find someone to print this jotting,

I’ll get my fifteen minutes from this rhyme,

Right at a quarter till the end of time.