The Momentum of History

Mass in motion,
Matter through space

It is non-fiction
With weight and inertia.

A boulder rolling
Downhill in time
Flattens out patterns of data
Like craters on the moon.

In ink of crushed bones and feathers
Innumerable body parts
Rusted machines and blown out buildings
What we call a story
Is pressed onto pages
As images.
The fiction we conjure
From marks left by rocks in time
This is what we tell to our children.

History has momentum
Because it is made
Of matter in motion.

And it doesn’t matter, really
What the TV says.

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