Manga 1,000 years on

Random manga
1,000 years on
old factory floor
images gone

Collapsed piles
an unconventional find

Looking at the future
today
can anything be remembered anyway?

Rescued, discovered,
solidified, petrified,
from underground
a blast
of heat unimaginable
nuclear?

Stacks of manga books
barely identifiable
Japanese popular
literary culture

Lost into a future time
consumable addiction
for the eyes

Multi-billion market
of printed disposable paper

Somehow still alive

Manga piles
once sheets
blocks of paper clay

A dozen episodes
in one week
millions of copies
end up in the ground

Art; literature well respected
unrecognizable

Drawings glanced at
for seconds
now lumps of clay
glazed by time

1,000-year-old manga books
fired clay