Time Traveling Guinea Pig
The experiment did not turn out as planned
My Guinea pig came
Back from the future, now I’m
Her unpaid intern
Poet’s Note
If the history of space exploration is any guide, animals will be the first time travelers.
I wonder what will happen if we send the animals too far into the future, and they come back smarter than us? Will the animals treat us like we have treated them? Will they return to our time enlightened or seeking revenge?
Will we have the sense to learn from our time traveling pets, or will we covet their power and seek to destroy them instead? These are the questions that keep me up at night.
Perhaps this one reason I am self-employed and haven’t had a “real” job in over eight years.
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