: the ROM

Dear family,
We are packing up and moving
to Museum, for a lifetime of learning
ossifies into
        The amber
        The molar
        The fine-toothed comb.
They've all been burrowed in the bat cave
Since 1996
and their fingerprints are still
on the fish tanks, though the fish are dead.
Are you having trouble believing
          believe!
such unreality in all things marvelous?
          74 million years!
Fossils are concepts
           to grasp
           to trust
You must un-remove yourself to be
moved.