January: Year-day 25

        
                                       
                                        
January: Year-day 25

Before, the past was presented as myth;
now, it is presented as human.  Feel.
Before, the past was for the few, the "pith";
now, it is explored for the many; real.
Being so, it's no longer kept alive
but deftly uprooted, denied/ at last/
until what was once extolled jungle jive
becomes, as it's Plumbed, The Death of the Past.
Hooray in the streets!  Hoorah in the halls!
Now the past is dead, history can live,
and there be no ending to what we give
to each and each as each fabricant falls
that will be in our lives gifts well worth giving
and gratefully plied by the future living.

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