What just happened

negative image of the Thomas Jefferson statue at the Jefferson Memorial with a speech ballon asking What happened

What just happened
said the mockingbird in advanced middle age surviving his first real snowstorm

What just happened
said the fork and the spoon when their owner started eating with her fingers

What just happened
said the pandemic stoner sitting in his flat full of nothing much

What just happened
said the blind cave fish after feeling the heat of a spelunker’s torch

What just happened
said the disposable chopsticks dug up by an archaeologist a thousand years from now

What just happened
said the t-shirt retailing for as low as $25 on Etsy but $16.99 on Amazon

What just happened
said the trees in March when their sap began to rise by a process still not fully understood by scientists

What just happened
said the Corona virus with its spike proteins buried in an antibody

What just happened
said the owner of the last brick-and-mortar porn shop in America when crude words were sprayed across his MAGA billboard

What just happened
said the porcupine skull beside the router when the electric came back on

What just happened
said the war criminal when he went back to his first love: oil painting

What just happened
said the Trump toady when Pepe the Frog showed up

What just happened
said the TV pundit every weekday morning for four years as ratings soared

What just happened
said the new Antarctic iceberg the size of Wales, in Welsh

What just happened
said the great blue whale encountering the song of an uncontacted tribe

What just happened
said the non-native ladybird beetle coming back to life in the walls of a house

What just happened
said the tree of liberty that had been refreshed with the blood of ordinary policemen

What just happened
said the headline the day before a new democratically elected warlord took power

What just happened
said the poem over and over clearly fancying itself some kind of postmodern incantation

What just happened

Are you all right

Are any of us

Have we ever been all right

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