jan 1, 1975 - Henry carlile I Dodo published

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A YEAR AFTER A DOG HAS DIED
BRO GOT LOW SELF ESTEEM

The poem has 2 stanzas. In the first one the speaker talks of him being mistaken for “you”, people pointing at him and thinking it was him. Later it is revealed that “you” is the dodo bird, when the speaker goes to the natural museum, sees all the flaws of it, and compares it to himself.
In the second stanza, the first line talks about the Dodo’s name in Latin - Didus Ineptus - which means “silly dude.” The speaker counts the ways the Dodo is useless, because it can’t fly, and not tasty, and the one egg it layed every year got eaten by hogs, and so on. The speaker then says that he sometimes knows how it feels to be scattered across the world, and not exist but by name.

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