lifelines

2005-07-08 11:53 a.m.

we'll anchor down in preparation for the winter, a strange thing, to meet the middle of the year and overlook it

tell them that this was how youth was lost, in anticipation

in storage and in savings

in income and investments

let them know that there are so few actual changes that can be made, and that you musst now speak for me, as i am mute

under the weight of the people i have carried, my pickpocket memories, my own long life entwined with forgiveness

and again i have forgiven
and again

but true forgiveness keeps no accounts, so i will forget.

at what point will this become knowledge? the collapses i have suffered have doubled themselves over in thirty days, and i have begun to notice

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