Less air / per ideation

Flattened. Ignominiously Stalled.

Mired in mud, for example.

Becometh some artifact. Perhaps, in amber,
preserved?

But bogged, bogged, set within, not on, a pedestal.

How does one imagine it

That we shall be studied?

Magnified?

We shall be Microscopied.

Then we

The individual personified,

dead-ended, Neanderthalers

on exhibition, in halls behind

beneath undusted, undisturb’ed glass: a panorama.

They will not even wonder

wherefore, we

have become extincted.