Welcome to the Ignocene Offspring of the Holocene Eclipser of the Anthropocene Murkier than the Miocene All of these the Recent scene Yes including Paleocene Not to mention Pliocene Oligocene and Pleistocene Confused? Mizzenmister you ain’t seen Nothin’ like the Ignocene Not even COSDMPP Mnemonics 101 Cambrian Ordovician Silurian Devonian Mississippian Pennsylvanian Permian The penultimate two make Brits vociferous In keen defense of the Carboniferous Conrad called “the earliest beginnings of the world” Although the world was over 99 percent As old as it is now and “vegetation rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings” Ignocene Eons after the Hadean eon Eons after the Archean eon After Paleohelikian time You can’t argon-argon an Oregon apple Or date the components of German scrapple Any more than you can See the trees for the forest Or date individual tips of a broom Or discern within the paradox of progress The boundary of doom
