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April 14, 2022September 15, 2022

Escapril 2022: Taxidermy

I’ve always found museums strange and otherworldly

Down each hall collections of the past carefully staged behind glass

In one stands plinths of ceramic artefacts, once a bowl or cup or plate 

In another perfectly preserved species we systematically eliminated 

Museums are a horrifying place with these creatures painful displayed

A reminder of just how destructive of our kind always seems to be 

But worst of all in the largest hall is what turns and rots my stomach

Propped up people from times gone by under a thousand eyes

Grotesque camera clicks and three phrase plaques not read always ignored

These bones should not be here they should be back home buried abroad 

But here they are in the name of history stolen from those lands 

I wonder what they think of us gawking here for entertainment

 

I’ve always found museums strange and otherworldly

They are places full of horror, grounds of the unholy 

 

Prompt: Taxidermy

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