FIELD NOTES FROM THE CREATION MUSEUM
After the Tower of Babel diorama
you arrive at a Kentucky nuclear
wasteland where mannequin Moses
asks mannequin David, Why do I
suffer? A projector whirs the answer:
a million CGI particles form a fully
adult, human male—No baby Adam.
No diaper changing station
in the men’s bathroom. No stopping the field
tripping students from prodding fertilized
egg models and life-sized fetuses. Or shoving
their way through the Garden of Eden
exhibit to be first in line for the petting-zoo-food-
court-equipped Ark, where a premium ticket
gets you the Deluge Experience and rainbows
are kept to a minimum. Please leave
in twos, a placard points to the gift shop.
In the humor section you buy a birthday
card with a unicorn nuzzling a brontosaurus
telling him, It doesn’t hurt.
Not really.
ABOUT THE POET
Ella Flores is a poetry PhD candidate at SUNY Binghamton and has recent
or forthcoming work in The Penn Review, DIAGRAM, Salamander, Hunger
Mountain, and others.
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