NO FUTURE ARCHAEOLGISTS

We kiss, and:
(it's a nuisance this )

some future archaeologist
extracts it with a forceps

puts it into
a container - labels it.

"A Dempsey kiss
circa July 2017

the genuine article
the real thing.

Kisser: Dempsey D.
Kissee: Dempsey, J."

Now I wouldn't mind this
all that much

if
( and it's a big IF )

we happened to be dead
a 1000 years or more

but oh
no!

Future archaeologists know they no
longer have to wait

for The Present
( so to speak )
to become
( so to speak )
The Past

as they had to do
in days of yore.

Their motto being: "Catch the moment
as it flies."

Now they time-hop
and get the goodies

as they happen.

All objects retrieved
must have that "present-ness"

all future archaeologists
seem to hunger for.

The now as now.

They can even extract
an indvidual's individual thoughts

with a sonic tweezer as if
our minds were not our own.

"Do away with history!"
as the bumpf puts it
"See how it was...as it is!"

They appear as see-through people
like some future ghosts

photographing
our very souls.

Our emotions laid out in display
behind glass in a museum

somewhere in 33003
in what used to be Maine.

Now some I am
sad to say

have got used to their presence
( one can get used to anything ).

Even act up to them.
Give them what they want

to see
...see?

But no not
me.

Their pretence somehow
distorting the what used to be.

I steal back the kiss
they stole.

"Dempsey, Donal
poet person

a most unwilling
subject."

I read their report
upside down and ha ha...laugh.

Only we
should taste that kiss

its spirit
all ours.

Radioactive sign
outside our door

states unequivocally
for all present

or future persons
to see:

NO COLD CALLERS
NO JUNK MAIL
NO FUTURE ARCHAEOLOGISTS