Remnant threads of grandpa’s clothes or else
badly depleted whole forms still out there (somewhere)
in defiance of death, suspended fibrous in air or
plaid on trash heaps
Animals, creatures of the small fur or woodland-grazing band
wounded by car tires and blunt fenders
instinctively labor to the side of the road to die as if
consciously avoiding being rubber pressed into the
mindless cement tracks of boring, fat-assed commuters
still technically alive but essentially useless
The hard evidence of memory and life is reduced
to specks of dust on dressers diverse enough to
represent a broad base of obvious, televised reminiscence
as well as those too broken down to register (mentally)
on the basis of variety or culture
A column of filtered light emphasizes particles on their descent
in dying seconds of spectacle until roused to once again
join the brigade of foraging wild hide or polyester slack
even if only as part of dander flake or a lint ball
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