Museum Relic

By Duane Anderson 

PROMPT — Who am I today?

I am a museum piece,

an aged antique of the past.

a relic, a classic, an artifact,

but one to be remembered.

Maybe I won’t be next to Abraham Lincoln’s

top hat in a Presidential Library,

but instead, next to a used bed,

a used lamp, a used set of dishes

in a secondhand store.

Learn about my past deeds

by reading about me in a history book

recorded on two stone tablets,

the words written in Sanskrit,

found in an ancient city library.

My portrait may not be found in any art gallery,

but instead, a picture of me

can be found in a dark tavern,

my nose located in the center of a dartboard.

Throw your darts at it, and see what you hit.

Maybe a bullseye, one you can be proud of hitting,

or maybe it will be a miss,

one I am quite familiar with.

Museums, galleries, and libraries,

take a look at each of my locations,

and discover more about me,

an old fossil that lived in the past.

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Duane Anderson currently lives in La Vista, NE. He has had poems published in Fine Lines, Cholla Needles, and several other publications. He is the author of On the Corner of Walk and Don’t Walk, The Blood Drives: One Pint Down, Conquer the Mountains, and Family Portraits.