almost forgotten

 

almost and not quite/somewhere/this is now and then and never/even if you don’t notice/even when it crosses the path you are walking/we are never without it/one another/

one and all/the table full/napkins and salad forks/et cetera/ et al./no roll call/no voting “present”/

we will own this/put our names to it/become it/swell and burst with the facts/non fiction/one and all/

lend us this ear/yours/mine/the litany of others/i should have known/never in doubt/together, we will lay claim to what is ours/