not so--not so at all--
it's just that the past
is still present for being ever in my
consciousness--it will never be gone--
how could it if indeed time and space are always
perpetually here and now?
my parents and grandparents stand beside me
(and who they were in previous lives standing beside
who I was in previous lives)
And foes and friends and 'frenemies' and 'froes' alike (O
William and Mammi--my good boys--my tuxedo buddies--
ever missed--and go ahead and mock--I'm
no hypocrite--but do long for their familiar forms
as long as I'm in this one and they are
worth infinitely more than far too many humans--
and may St. Francis intercede if God wishes to damn me
for saying this!--) all of them--all of us here--
and you and me--lifetimes over and over--
forgive me my small little moment of melancholy--
it's hard to realize eternity--with the ignorant
clamoring in my ears about the past--
which has come to pass just...right...NOW!--
there it goes--past--and here we are--now--
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