circles, groups, gangs and symbols, get togethers, gatherings, families, expanding, contracting, and expunging, removal, extraneous, expedited, unneeded, unnecessary, and gone. grapevines, cut, trimmed, lines cut, fiber optic lines across oceans, mail service, telephones, television, talking. information second hand, read from a read from a read website, offhand, thirdhand, removed, unknown, becoming strangers. change. it's inevitable, it comes, it goes, but change as a loss of knowing? of keeping up to date, of being in the know? gone. slipping away. sand through the fingertips. end of an era. age. epoch. gone.