Elephant Graveyards – A Poem by Rowe Williams

In the English language, 
there is a word to describe 
things that are dead or dying 
from disuse and unnecessity. 

These things are the opposite of 
bleeding edge technology, 
and for this crime are condemned 
to their own death row, 

awaiting justice. 
This word is often used to 
describe other words, dictionaries 
branding them with this 

linguistic fleur-de-lis. 
Perhaps this word is destined 
to see all other words birthed, 
living, and, at last, dead, 

while its use is perpetuated 
by these life cycles, always needed 
to denote that which is aged, insignificant, 
archaic.