some light at the end of the tunnel, some settling of the sediment in the muddy waters, no figments of imagination, but butterflies continue aplenty, and resolution, however small, is not complete, no final solution, no gravity, a state of free fall, forces of physics still acting on bodies in motion, chemicals in a reaction, test tube, erlenmeyer flasks, corrosive, acidic, bases, molar concentrations, strange place to be, stranger places to be, and who would have guessed, yearly cycles, annuality, fads come in and out of fashion, bell bottoms, hip huggers, button downs, bowling shoes, but some might say bowling shoes never went out of style, lowered numbers