salt shakers, am i right?
—Meggie Ramm
but most likely not,
am i right? wow,
what a day! a day
that let’s you know
who you are, that
you’re here, that
you’re ,,, loved?
did it, now?
sure it did.
a day filled
with cell-
phones filled
with people.
a day filled
with photo
graphs of
people to
whom you
’ve some re
lation. but
being black
and white,
they are mo
stly relations
of the progen
itor type. peo
ple for whom
you (i) are (am)
progeny, only
most’d never
know it, mean
ing never knew
it, not a chance.
isn’t this a
good time
to appreciate
the 21st cen
tury? i won’t
say i never lo
ok back, but i
will say i never
surrender my
self to whatever
it is that’s back
there to look at,
because that’d
be unpretty. t
he world is re
plete with ob
stacles, i repeat,
the world’s got a
lot of stumbling
blocks. but so long
as you don’t break
your legs too badly
there will always be
plenty more stuff
to stumble over
and (better yet,
am i right?) upon.
