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[[Poem|1]]\n[[Commentary]]\n<div style="padding-top: 30px;">\n<span style="font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: normal;">Sidekick Play-Poems use the Twine engine and Sugarcube story format.</span></div>
How will I pay notice to their arrival\nat the primary body – the primary interval?\n\n\n<a data-passage="7"><div id="circle"></div></a>
Are the dinosaurs in <i>Hell Creek Anthology</i> actual dinosaurs, or are they people with dinosaur names? They're both and neither. This is one thing poetry does better than other mediums – it toys with a concept that never quite solidifies. Triceratops maximus gnaws roots and practises law. Men and women are 'bulls and cows' but also partners, comrades, murderers, victims. The comic-amorphous quality of these characters tacitly makes the point that the distinctions we seek to make between man and beast are questionable at best.\n\nThis is driven home by the fact that, like many of the characters in the book, these two meet a violent end. The cave mentioned in the antepenultimate line makes for an (almost literal) liminal space – our modern homes are not so far removed from this basic form of shelter.\n\nThe image of the skeletons of Nyx and Triceratops huddled together in their grave also reminds me of the famous fossil of a protoceratops and velociraptor mortally entwined. Except these two are buddies, which is what makes this poem, on top of being a classy little pastiche, rather heartwarming.\n\nRead it aloud to your own 'constant companion' animal, be they turtle or terrier. They won't mind that it's slightly macabre.\n\n<span class="brightlink">[[Return to poem|previous()]]</span>\n<a class="set2" data-passage="Start">Return to front page</a>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Vollkorn">\s\n<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Nunito"><div style="display: inline-block; width: 80%; height: 115px; line-height: 17px;">\s\n<span class="fade"><a href="http://www.sidekickbooks.com" target="_top"><img src="http://www.sidekickbooks.com/sidekicklogocolour.png" width="100px" align="left"></a></span>\s\n<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 0.8em;">the</span> sidekick<br/><span style="font-size: 0.9em;">PLAY-POEM</span><br/><span style="font-size: 0.9em;">A R C H I V E</span></span></div>
Together in this grave lie Triceratops maximus, attorney at law,\n<<replacelink "<div id=\s"circle\s"></div>">>And Nyx, his turtle, constant companion, solace and friend.\n\n<a data-passage="2"><div id="circle"></div></a><<endreplacelink>>\n
<span style="color:#ff0066;">TRICERATOPS MAXIMUS</span>\n<span style="font-size: 0.8em;">by J.T. WELSCH</span>\n\nClick the pink circle to advance. Use backspace to retread.\n<a data-passage="1"><div id="circle"></div></a>\n<span style="font-size: 0.9em;">\nThis poem is published in hard copy format in <a class="set2" href="http://www.sidekickbooks.com/hellcreekanthology.php" target="_top"><i>Hell Creek Anthology</i>.</a></span>\n\n<span class="fade" style="width:auto;"><a href="http://www.sidekickbooks.com/hellcreekanthology.php" target="_top"><img class="shadowed" style="margin-left: 30px;" src="http://www.sidekickbooks.com/images/hellcreek-smallcover.jpg"></a></span>
In the morning of life, I knew aspiration and saw glory,\n<<replacelink "<div id=\s"circle\s"></div>">>Then she, who survives me, gored my soul\n<<timedinsert 2s>>With a horn which bled me to death,<<endtimedinsert>>\n<<timedinsert 4s>>Till I,<<endtimedinsert>><<timedinsert 5s>> once strong of will,<<endtimedinsert>><<timedinsert 7s>> lay broken, indifferent,<<endtimedinsert>>\n<<timedinsert 9s>>Living with Nyx in the back of a dingy cave.\n\n<a data-passage="4"><div id="circle"></div></a><<endtimedinsert>><<endreplacelink>>
Down the gray path,<<replacelink "<div id=\s"circle\s"></div>">> friends, <<timedinsert 1.5s>>offspring,<<endtimedinsert>> <<timedinsert 4s>>bulls and cows,<<replacelink "<div id=\s"circle\s"></div>">>\nPassing one by one out of life, left me till I was alone\nWith Nyx for partner, <<timedinsert 3s>>bedfellow,<<endtimedinsert>><<timedinsert 5s>> comrade in root gnawing.\n\n\n<a data-passage="3"><div id="circle"></div></a><<endtimedinsert>><<endreplacelink>><<endtimedinsert>><<endreplacelink>>
Those after-images will one day unfold\nout of the wind <<relace "<div id=\s"circle\s"></div>">>like so many paper dolls,<<relace "<div id=\s"circle\s"></div>">>\nthe birthing of once-beens, caparisoned\nin looking, <<relace "<div id=\s"circle\s"></div>">>gloved in the letting-go,<<relace "<div id=\s"circle\s"></div>">>\nover the curvatures of multiple Earths.\n\n\n<a data-passage="6"><div id="circle"></div></a><<endrelace>><<endrelace>><<endrelace>><<endrelace>>
Under my jawbone is snuggled the bony nose of Nyx –\n<<replacelink "<div id=\s"circle\s"></div>">>Our story is lost in silence. <<replacelink "<div id=\s"circle\s"></div>">>Go by, mad planet!\n\n\n\n<a class="set2" data-passage="Start">Return to front page</a><<endreplacelink>><<endreplacelink>>
I will take nothing from them, this moment,\nshow it to no one. <<relace "<div id=\s"circle\s"></div>">>Be nothing more than this.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<a class="set2" data-passage="Start">Return to front page</a><<endrelace>>
Triceratops Maximus
J.T. Welsch
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