Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet: Nothing Left But Their Names

Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet: Nothing Left But Their Names (fra Landfall, 2018)

You know, recently I got a book listing all the animal species that have
Disappeared off the face of the earth called All the Disappeared Animal
Life Forms of the World

The list is really impressive and it included the dates and territories
Where the animals were last sighted. Or wherever the last fossil was
Unearthed

Now as you probably know 99.9 per cent of the species who have ever
Lived are now extinct. So this is a very long list including massive
Numbers of civets, big subsets of spotted lizards, every last mastodon
The short-faced bear, the Shrub-ox, fifteen chapters on sloths. And one
Whole chapter on the one-eared dinosaur
 
And it was amazing, you cannot imagine how many kinds of weasels have
Come and gone. And the publishers claim that the book is a definitive
Masterpiece. In fact, according to them, the book actually weighs
Approximately thirty weasels. 

And so goodbye to the disappeared ones
There they go, hopping and jumping away, swimming and floating away
Gone forever. Vaporized as if they'd never existed except for a few bones
And footprints. Nothing much left but their names