Late at night I heard a siren growing
and come to a stop near our house.
Peaking out the window I couldn't
see a thing apart from one lone
megabeast--an Indricotherium,
I think--which should have been
extinct long before humans settled
in this area. Its giraffe-like neck
stretched up and I saw with horror
it was about to gnaw on a power
line. Its lips were pulled back to
reveal bulging teeth and it was
poised to bite when I turned away
unable to watch. This was not our
fault, I thought, as the window
went red from the spinning lights
but this time there was no siren,
just the rumble as something big
went back down the street.
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