It started as a priority shipping package lost in the mail.

Museum of the Endtimes is a USPS priority shipping box, Aunt Jemima’s pancake mix and a mammie-shaped Mrs. Butterworth syrup bottle, Goya “Great Northern” beans and a broken 9 iron golf club, a dirty M95, a roll of 2-ply toilet paper and a bottle of bleach, fireworks from the Fourth, an old restaurant pager, Nike Running shoes blood running through the tracks, a counterfeit $20, (added a Little Tree air freshener to the list of reasons.) a box of mango edibles from the legal state of Illinois, two I voted stickers plus one promising “I will vote 11.3.20,” a wrinkled copy of Times “Planet of the Year: Earth Endangered,” from January 2, 1989, a plastic 2 gallon of Natural Spring Water.

My collection of formerly innocuous items that now carry this political weight due to a global pandemic, racial, environmental and economic unrest.