The
familiar and revered
have
died
passed
on
overcome
by another season
other
reasons
Nature
deals extinction
for
animal and plant species
Losing
hands
loosening
grips
memory
or imagination
history
or invention
Why
not news media
Delivery
mechanisms
stagecoaches
and trains
papyrus
and ink
remnants
of days gone by
Like
the summer annual
bright
and brighter
for
a moment
leading
us to believe
summer
will last forever
But
its premise fades
dries
dessicates
blowing
into the autumn breeze
precursor
of the leaves
unleashed
from trees
Snowflakes
light
as a breath
blow
in on winter’s watch
Learning
to let go
not
mourning
not
cheering
simply
watching
the
news slip away
in
this print form
waiting
not
quite believing
news
will come again
in
a new form
Ciphers
constructed of
electric
ions
speeding
on
fibers
thin as a notion
that
we’ll become
accustomed
to
like
the lamp on
the
table next to the photo
of
great-great-great grand relatives
whose
names we barely remember
whose
stories we never knew
like
the next generation’s
heirlooms
old
stuff that got saved
sometimes
inadvertently
Do
you want to be the one
announcing
the death of a generation
or
proclaiming the beginning of the next?
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