footnotes

what will we have been
when this our postmodern era is at an end?

the number of unexpected endings has
slowly dwindled down to none-at-all
and the future is not what it used to be
(for one, it's shorter)

when you're young,
you dream of becoming a giant
but we stopped growing years ago
and i rather fear that
if we are to be remembered at all
it will be only in the footnotes