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The Museum's 'Personal Possessions From a Shipwreck'
A recent visit to an eclectic museum trying to achieve many things in a small space. Unintentionally presented in the style of a lucid dream. Harps through the ages (with audio), a collection of children's toys (with brief notes about who owned them), a human skeleton (example of preservation of bone), important paintings and prints of fish, axes through the ages (note to say chainsaws are now used - exclamation mark added to note hilarity of how times change). I rested upon the following display and thought about it...
Personal possessions from a shipwreck
The oddity of prized finds:
Insole of a shoe
Broken plate
Comb
Child's marble
All encased is glass
Evidence of life and death, acquired
and simply labelled
Perhaps elsewhere are the statistics
How many souls onboard
Still saying nothing
The ordinariness of items spared by the sea
From a day it swallowed whole so many dreams
And how safely those objects are kept
How we all hold objects sacred
Evidence of a life
But meaningless in the scheme of things
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