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Can you remember
the date today?
or have all the days slid into each other like
the evaporating colors in a rainbow
or a car into another,
car parts strewn with bloodless carnage across the asphalt.
the spectators are slowing down now to stare and
feel alive.

It’s too easy, too easy to feel your heartbeat
and the wheel under your hands,
the sweat-slick texture of your skin,
the pattern of your breathing
and the slight throb behind your left eye
from staying up too late,
and a thousand other annoyances that let you know
you’re still on Earth
when it’s all stopped
for someone else.

But it breaks the monotony, right?
for the brief few moments you see it,
before it’s filed away under “Memory”
or just discarded, you remember you’re alive,
because it’s so easy to forget that,
and a little dose of death cures that,
as long as it’s not your own.