This many no-ones

The lonely form crowds on the street. They collect at the corners, letting the whole world drown in their silence. They are a flashmob without the flash, and a mob that mobs no-one. Each of them is you, a someone you used to be, and therefore each of them is no-one. No-one did this, the blind Cyclops says; and this many no-ones have accusation enough to blind the sky.
These people have nobody and, so, slip through the cracks to end up collected at the edges of the drains. Corrugating in lines that jag up and down like the teeth of a zipper: swarming, dispersing, only to form again.  Chastised by the wind, like so much chaff; chaste and uncherished in mute inevitability.

These people have-done-are nothing and, so, ask you what you have done for them. What crime is it that they are thinking of? Each time that a shudder of revulsion at this injustice passes through the throng it bangs louder in your memory.

Who have you forgotten?

Reviews

[Miss. Smith]

I find this to be a very well thought out piece about how we walk this earth and are perhaps forgotten and perhaps forget many others when thinking of ourselves and well I guess a great deal of other things.
I had to read it through twice to understand however I still enjoyed it because it is a piece of literature, rather than a story that when we read it, we do not have to think about the meaning.

[TLK]

Thank you for taking the time to read it twice.

[Emily B]

i feel so very small

[TLK]

Be small with the rest of us.

[Emily B]

infinitely finite :)

[Pax]

wow, profound and deeply thought out....just amazing...

[TLK]

Heh, don't give me a big head now.

[Pax]

sorry...I'm just amaze with your work...

[Kenneth The Poet]

Corrugated cardboard meeting the elements...I love that metaphor. Once the boxed is warped, there is no more use for it. A classic piece I must say.

[TLK]

Well, you certainly haven't forgotten me, friend. You reviewed this in like 5 mins! Thanks.

[Kenneth The Poet]

Not a problem at all. I will read more when I have a chance.