And So It Goes

 

Time is running out for us Boomers…

more friends my age are dying now.

With each one, the world I know

diminishes,

becomes a bit less familiar,

half a hologram;

complete, but a little fuzzy.

The world changes a little bit at a time

for a long while, then, suddenly,

it changes all at once, like now.

¨May you live in interesting times.¨

is a Chinese curse.

Does it seem true today?

 

Kurt Vonnegut had the catch phrase,

¨and so it goes¨. It would punctuate

outrageous events transpiring in his

novels.

 

¨Ke garne?¨ Hindu, means ¨What to do?¨

¨Ni Modo and ni pedo¨ in Spanish mean

¨It´s nothing really.¨

 

Everybody knows…

a Big Bang to begin,

then, 

the inevitable letting go.