Museums

Museum home to the curious

Richly piled to brim with mementos

Of so many extinct ways and beliefs:

Parts; pieces of crowns, shoes to caps

And, beheaded heads of monarchs:

All relics of a people exterminated

That in tramp for progress, stood

In the way of expropriations: needed

Goods for furniture, fluffs, furs to hats.

As those coming after us are sure to find

Same sort without clownish crowns;

The relics - leftovers of victims of genocide

Part end-product of venture exploitation  

Of today’s seekers of mineral and munitions