Easter Island Goes Belly Up
Easter Islanders Go Belly-Up
By Elton Camp
It’s the most remote inhabited place around
In the far past, with residents it did abound
Then some catastrophe the natives did befall
And death then overtook them, just about all
Nobody knows what trouble brought demise
Some think they didn’t treat their island wise
Perhaps its natural resources they misused
Or one another, the natives may have abused
A work of no worth the islanders did for years
It must have required blood, sweat and tears
Huge stone heads with visages horribly grim
Their entire island the sculptors came to rim
Were they intended to frighten invaders away?
What was their purpose nobody really can say
Perhaps, due to the energy the natives did waste,
The collapse of their civilization came in haste
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