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