Taxidermy

So many dead peoples,
and stuff keeps accumulating –
tribes and languages
extinct, well past the best-by date.

Graves are broken, ships raided.
Houses and hardware,
wrecks and relics:
the dead and earth

unpossessed.
Apostrophes and trophies
lie languishing on the shelf –
buy two, get one free.

Land of the free and
bargain basement prices
keep ‘em coming,
westward expanding.