Friday, January 26, 2018

retrodict

at the ending
we are become
detectives in
a dime store crime story

pouring over facts
and fabrications
and false starts
to surmise motives

to retrodict the narrative
that led from there to here
searching for pivotal points
attributing antecedents

but try though we might
we never really know
we study history hoping not to repeat
the lesson we thought we learned before

1 comment:

  1. That twist at the end took a literal image of us as detectives and completely changed it.

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