History’s History and It's Not Quite 2015 Again (Or 1916 Either)
History’s History and It's Not Quite 2015 Again
(Or 1916 Either)
Maybe “repeat” isn’t the right word,
Not quite wrong either:
Refamiliarize. Recur. Emend?
Not quite right
Either.
Maybe “past” isn’t the right word,
Not quite wrong either:
Rear-windowed. Behind us. At an end?
Not quite right
Either.
Maybe “over” isn’t the right word,
Not quite wrong either:
Completed. Finished. Over-ripened?
Not quite right
Either.
History’s past:
Histories past:
History’s passed:
Histories passed:
Clinging and clawing and discarding
The 2015 of Clubs along with
Trumps and Clintons and Bushes, structures:
Institutions and unfair, stacked decks,
Gray spades and bleeding hearts
And blood-licked, diamond-tipped
Pitchforks.
Dick Clark’s drooping pomme from
Heaven to Anderson and Kathy
And confetti, the faux organic:
Celebrations and cop barricades:
Between mobs and gods and
Fear and democracy
And faith.
Perched between poem and prose,
Nestled between beats,
And uneasy asyncopation:
Protean, indulgent essaying:
Tangent to story: myth:
Pause hyperactively.
Resting!
Rhyme is the right word:
And wrong too.
Nostalgia from two lines ago:
And wrong too.
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