Croatoan

One of the enduring mysteries

of English colonizing

is probably also

one of the dumbest things

history still records:

How the hell we can't just admit

that the answer to the riddle

of what happened

to those missing colonists

is that they starved, died,

and absorbed into that

"mysterious word,"

Croatoan,

which is to say,

the natives

living around them.

I mean,

c'mon.