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Am I Really Extinct?

David Hernandez

The Insights Museum, once set in the town’s business center,
housed an exhibit of dinosaurs and extinct mammals
that I went to see if I was indeed extinct.
Cases displayed our teeth, horns, and skeleton system.
Dinosaurs were recreated with flesh, body, sound, and robotics.
Children felt the fur of the mammoth, the skull of the saber-toothed tiger,
and learned how to dig our fossils from a sand pit.
I see that I’ve been reincarnated,
my memory lives on, even though the building is now empty.
If I’m not extinct they why aren’t children reading my stories,
do they favor space and native culture?
The Smithsonian museums display more of our remains,
yet children see more of our motion driven bodies, not our life stories.
Was it my intent to become famous?
Am I really extinct, or am I just for display?

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