Today the post-
woman brought
me a brochure
from EARWAX—
extinct animal 
resurrection with 

academic expertise—
suggesting that if 
I donated both
money & a sample 
of my DNA they 
might be able 

to bring back 
the Amazonian 
smilodon. I de-
clined. Now if it 
had have been 
the mastodon. . .