Many of them remain unaware of . . .
Existence right now feels like a series of unfinished sentences.
A series of lives ended abruptly.
Of livelihoods upended.
Of families fractured.
Of possibilities dissipating.
Of promises broken.
Of people breaking.
We are on fire.
We are not phoenixes.
Attribution:
They just can’t seem to . . . They should try harder to . . . They ought to be more . . . We all wish they weren’t so . . . They never . . . They always . . . Sometimes they . . . Once in a while they . . . However it is obvious that they . . . Their overall tendency has been . . . The consequences of which have been . . . They don’t appear to understand that . . . If only they would make an effort to . . . But we know how difficult it is for them to . . . Many of them remain unaware of . . . Some who should know better simply refuse to . . . Of course, their perspective has been limited by . . . On the other hand, they obviously feel entitled to . . . Certainly we can’t forget that they . . . Nor can it be denied that they . . . We know that this has had an enormous impact on their . . . Nevertheless their behavior strikes us as . . . Our interactions unfortunately have been . . .
— Elliptical by Harryette Mullen