(To be sung plaintively) I Want to Be Fossilized Eternity calls out to me: Oh, why not immortality? Lao Tzu said so! Yes, let me be silicified: It won't be half so bad I've died, If I'm preserved. Silicified must be my fate: It's better than my present state, And that's for sure. I'll fit into my chosen place: Type specimen of Human Race, My fame secure. Andrew K. Rindsberg Geological Survey of Alabama