someones dead & we're all sad about it

Someone's dead and we're all sad about it

But we forget things, you know, we move apartments and adopt new pets.
Like the onetime, your dog bites the head off a turtle and you don't hate the dog for it.

We went to school for this kind of thing. we went to school for so long we forgot where we went
before that & no one sells directions on walking backwards or through one another--

you learned the year in a song, maybe, you got sick a few times
& you stayed home...
did they let you eat soup in the big bed? did you watch the daytime soaps?

you weren't sick a few times & you still stayed home, did they let you eat soup
in the big bed, then?...or did they know and make you wash the dishes?

When no one was home would you break eggs over the sink and run
the yoke between your fingers

until it broke?

did you think of slug puddles?

mucus?...

or where you would put the shells?