Mummy Eaters by Sherry Shenoda

Author:Sherry Shenoda [Shenoda, Sherry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: POE007000 POETRY / African
Publisher: Nebraska

Immigration

“King (Deceased)”

The French passport read, issued

the disintegrating body of Ramesses II,

the Great who, preserved centuries, began to

really rot in the Egyptian Museum.

North to South: Expedition Excavation

Said Giovanni Belzoni, My weight bore on the body of an Egyptian,

crushed it like a band box. I sunk among broken mummies with a crash,

bones, rags, wooden cases every step I took, I crushed a mummy.

As there is no “mummy” category,

pharaohs traveling north

were once taxed as salted fish.

Said Giovanni Belzoni, I could not avoid being covered, legs, arms, heads rolling from above.

The purpose of my researches was to rob Egyptians of papyri, which I found

hidden in breasts, under arms, above knees.

To save Ramesses II, even he, of the four

seventy-foot statues of himself,

of Abu Simbel, the Golden Age,

enthroned beside Nefertari, he, even he

South to North: Show us your passport.

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