May 30, 2016

Alternates

it can be confusing, at times

you start to think you’re crazy

(or that they might be lying

but that’s not really possible

could they be less honourable

than you hope you are)

so many ‘things’ not being quite

as you remember them to be

(she said something different here

he died two days earlier there

some say you acted as you didn’t

history is just ever so slightly off)

that you can’t quite be certain

of anything you might think

except that as confusing as this is

wherever you might be is home

Written in response to the death of Morley Safer,

whom history will record as having died May 19, 2016.

And yet for the two days prior I remember

remembering him dying on May 17, 2016.