December 19, 2023

matter

Sometimes we make a meal out of a pot of rice. In the evenings,
we make ourselves feel better with a show about dating. We make 
a casserole for the new neighbor. We make change for a twenty. 
We make promises and plans and lists, and we try to make good 
on most of them. Once, we made a trip to the grocery store feel 
like visiting another country, wandered the aisles imagining each label 
in a foreign language. We gazed at the backs of strangers ahead of us in line 
like old friends. Does it matter, what we do, what we say, who we tell, 
how we inch along the seismic rumbles of our terrifying world? 
Yes. Yes. Yes.