Erica Jong - At The Museum of Natural History lyrics

The lessons we learned here (fumbling with our lunchbags, handkerchiefs & secret cheeks of bubblegum) were graver than any in the schoolroom: the dangers of a life frozen into poses. Trilobites in their petrified ghettos, lumbering dinosaurs who'd outsized themselves told how nature was an endless morality play in which the co*kroach (& all such beadyeyed exemplars of adjustment) might well recite the epilogue. No one was safe but stagnation was the surest suicide. To mankind's Hamlet, what six-legged creature would play Fortinbras? It made you scratch your head & think for about two minutes. Going out, I remember how we stopped to look at Teddy Roosevelt, (Soldier, Statesman, Naturalist, Hunter, Historian, et cetera, et cetera). His bronze bulk (four times life size) bestrode Central Park West like a colossus. His monumental horse snorted towards the park. Oh, we were full of Evolution & its lessons When (the girls giggling madly, the boys blushing) we peeked between those huge legs to see those awe-inspiring Brobdingnagian balls.