Isn’t it annoying, how you can read all
you want about the past, but not go there?
Collect whatever you want from back then,
whenever, put it on a shelf. You can even
decide you like a time period, hit up eBay
or Craigslist, and in no time you can have
almost whatever you want. That’s it, though.

Like you can’t go hang out and get to know
your Neanderthal forebears, the 2% of you
that, supposedly, makes it difficult for you
to get rid of the things you don’t need.
No lunch with that guy in his cave, no family
reunion among the pelts and skins, no gazing
at their pigmented hand-print cave art