by Barry Vitcov.
These times are not about
finding your socks in the vegetable bin
or cauliflower in the sock drawer
Those are simply lapses of distraction
No, these times are about forgetting:
doctrines, precedents, understanding,
social mores, kindness, do unto others
It’s about trying to remember
permanence, values, empathy,
commonality, and a social contract
We can rearrange things found
out of place.
Will we forget
what we lost
in an empty space?