Crash Test Dummies

Now that Ive used up all my ideas
Here in my little house by the sea
I search for a useable memory, but none comes to me...
In grade one, my teacher could do embalmingShed stuff the bodies of dead little birds
She told us if ever we found one, just to bring it to her
And in the science room was an iguana
Who lay, very still, in his cageAnd wed fed him
Living flies