Used to It   At first we were bewildered — words like why still meant something to us then, and the stars still spoke to us, we still looked to the sky   for answers. But we had so much to lose — at first the losses hurt. We tried to buy our way out, cast magic spells to confuse   it, make it go away, anywhere far from here. But nothing worked, and we got used to it — we had to. You know how things are.     © Michael Fleming Brattleboro, Vermont March 2020