My Mother in the New Fade, Part 4

my mother made a robe for Kennedy

it's part of what I like to consider
her mythology
since it seems somewhat
incomprehensible

i believe it and i doubt it
every time i think about it

she would have been about twenty
at the time
and that's also weird to think

my father can remember
exactly where he was
sitting on a wall
when he heard about
the assassination

and my mother used
to really be enamored
with Camelot

and yet now i sense
that she doesn't really care

we all forget our dying king
and yet i sense that it's
simply no longer important to her

all of that's important to the New Fade, too