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Dinosaur Town
Our dinosaur toys lived in the world we couldn't.
We called it Dinosaur Town
--a cookie cutter, quintessential little borough
where anthropomorphized predator and prey lived in harmony.
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A family of Triceratops lived next to a bachelor and his kid brother Velociraptor.
The kids would play with the bachelor as the parents laughed at their antics,
unconcerned if he had ulterior motives; they would have held the stomachs at the thought.
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There were only happy endings
--peace with the occasional break of trouble,
easily resolved in episodic time, sometimes with the snap of the fingers.
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The dinosaur folk were naive, though, to the realities around them,
never had they heard any words ending with -ism,
never were they questioned and criminalized for truly innocent actions.
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They never had to second guess the ones around them, searching for ulteriority.
They weren't paranoid, looking over their shoulders unless they were playing a game.
They lived in near-perfect health and wouldn't know true fear even if it stared them in the face.
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But then again, the dinosaurs were puppets with children pulling their strings,
children who wore rose-colored glasses, innocent to the way the world worked.
We glamourized life, and the dinosaurs played to our perceptions.
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In time, the dinosaurs, including the Triceratops family and the Velociraptor brothers,
went away to be a part of another Dinosaur Town elsewhere.
A hundred different children, a hundred different versions.
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At times, I find myself ludicrously jealous of toy dinosaurs
or perhaps truly, the younger me full of romanticized notions.
Because the world doesn't work like Dinosaur Town did.
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About the Creator
Alexandria Stanwyck
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Comments (7)
Congrats on placing in the challenge & having a fresh outlook on the topic. This reminds me of when my daughter played with her plastic Schleich animal collection… she had family back stories and inter-species families. Good times.😍
Congratulations 🎉 Wonderfully written. I loved the visuals.
Intriguing writing. Congratulations on Runner-up!!! 🥳
Really well done. Congrats.
Congrats on Runner-up! This is such a charming piece with a brilliantly orchestrated extension in the closing lines!
I loved Dinosaur Town! Such a true analogy! Great work, Alexandria!
Impressive writing.