Smoke Signals

When you add a new chapter to your life

you can't just erase the previous ones.

All stories have a beginning, middle and an end progression

marked indelibly in time

on paper

in print

pen

pencil

or paint

Even its ashes

going up in smoke

don't destroy the mental footprints

recorded impressions.

Lost forever in the internet

that film

that email

tracks on your face

a little bag of happiness

is snow white's poisoned apple.

Time travelling

and a predisposition

to a sensitive complex.