Roll-Call Poem by bobby beddoe

Roll-Call
As of today, I'm thirty-five thousand years old.
Yeah, it's true, I don't look that old, I'm told;
But, for an old man, I hold my age quite well,
That fact you can't dismiss or dispel.
Tho, verses herein can be arguable;
None, Archaeologists view as fable.
Therefore; lines, below, word just the essence
When man first, on this Continent, took residence;
I remenber when 'now' America was discovered.
First time was at the end of the ice age
When Paleo-man began his voyage
To Alaska from Siberia,
Traveling on foot, to reach America!
So during the last of the glaciations,
The primitives could hunt like happy persons.
Kills included caribou, Musk ox, mammoth,
And buffalo quite huge - like behemoth!
About year 1000 was the second time
America was discovered in this time-line rhyme
Was when Leif Erikson landed in Canada.
Those ancient Norsemen hung around the area
For a few hundred years, then faded away,
Yeah, I remember that like it was yesterday!
The third time America was discovered
Was when the year 1492 ended
With the arrival of Columbus and crew;
And from then on people came - none withdrew!
Anyway, that's about it for now - 'till nukes fall...
Hope all are ready for Up Yonder's roll-call!