Another Grave

The ghost cat
Is dead
Headlines
Always certain
Decades removed
From the last sight
Officials
Made it official
Declaring
One of our
Native icons
Extinct
East of the
Mississippi

Like this country
These lands
And those remaining
I get by
With half a heart
Still tapping
One lung collapsed
The third eye lost
Another closed
Until
The last thread
Collapses
And somebody
Finally cares
About it being
Too late