When you needed the work
But turned it down, had to,
So as to qualify for that SSI
That savings
...
[+]
gives no thought to "did" or "should,"
but, ever tense and present, will
plunge forward to her future kill.
We humans run a different race,
and won't let go of our past case;
never far from who we'd been,
like snakes still trapped in prior skin.