Assorted Heroic Words: Ultimo

in the month preceding the present

For someone
constantly reliving
a specific
moment in time,
their second thoughts
dwell
on the period
immediately preceding it
as what life was like
before it.

Marty, for instance,
before the shooting,
had been acting in a play
based on
The Last of the Mohicans,
in which he was cast
in an incidental role,
a random soldier
with few lines,
and all he could think
was how pointless it was.

After the shooting,
of course,
he longed
for such
simplicity.