After an Evening of Watching Genealogical Programs on PBS

Delayed recognition
for decades if not centuries 

to know someone you know
possesses the only story 

and can answer questions 
the answers don’t even know 

how likely it is to have 
the chances for long life 

in the cantor of a song 
who knows where the words

came from or where they go
in the hearing a silence 

that may happen again 
the last living memory 

was once yet to be born
and laughs at the thought 

of remembering many things 
many many things