What just happened
said the mockingbird in advanced middle age surviving his first real snowstorm
What just happened
said the fork and the spoon when their owner started eating with her fingers
What just happened
said the pandemic stoner sitting in his flat full of nothing much
What just happened
said the blind cave fish after feeling the heat of a spelunker’s torch
What just happened
said the disposable chopsticks dug up by an archaeologist a thousand years from now
What just happened
said the t-shirt retailing for as low as $25 on Etsy but $16.99 on Amazon
What just happened
said the trees in March when their sap began to rise by a process still not fully understood by scientists
What just happened
said the Corona virus with its spike proteins buried in an antibody
What just happened
said the owner of the last brick-and-mortar porn shop in America when crude words were sprayed across his MAGA billboard
What just happened
said the porcupine skull beside the router when the electric came back on
What just happened
said the war criminal when he went back to his first love: oil painting
What just happened
said the Trump toady when Pepe the Frog showed up
What just happened
said the TV pundit every weekday morning for four years as ratings soared
What just happened
said the new Antarctic iceberg the size of Wales, in Welsh
What just happened
said the great blue whale encountering the song of an uncontacted tribe
What just happened
said the non-native ladybird beetle coming back to life in the walls of a house
What just happened
said the tree of liberty that had been refreshed with the blood of ordinary policemen
What just happened
said the headline the day before a new democratically elected warlord took power
What just happened
said the poem over and over clearly fancying itself some kind of postmodern incantation
What just happened
Are you all right
Are any of us
Have we ever been all right