They are retiring the reason for loss of faith.

As the bones will be taken down and will never

adorn the main hall in my lifetime, how Darwin must be laughing

at the peculiar notion that my evolution started not with

an ape or a monkey but with a dinosaur and now that beast

of my burden is leaving home, presumed missing.

Eight years old, dressed in green, no badges yet of note earned

and the first of many visits to the Capital undertaken

with a tour and my paid homage