Have you ever heard someone wonder what future archaeologists, whether human or from alien civilization, will make of us? Today, I’d like to challenge you to answer that question in poetic form, exploring a particular object or place from the point of view of some far-off, future scientist? The object or site of study could be anything from a “World’s Best Grandpa” coffee mug to a Pizza Hut, from a Pokemon poster to a cellphone.
Maus
Screws and buttons
a long wire to connect
to--?
Obviously a machine of
some sort.
A robot's hand?
One of the early
designs;
late twenty first
century?
But why, then, no
appendages?
Not an android's hand,
then, but
ergonomically pleasing
to fit a hand
but one with only three
fingers.
Were they less evolved
that us?
Or more so – Our five
digits
must seem an excess to
these proto-humans
who must have counted
in base six
(one, two, three, four,
five, one-zero)
and why a window on the
underside?
What a strange
civilisation they must have had
and so short-lived.
Hardly any time
between Mesozoic era
and the abrupt end of
the Cenozoic
Almost a half-life.
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