The more we produce, and reproduce,
images of who we are and where we live,
half-hoping the images would reveal
to the future what we did to get to where we are,
the less we realise that the future will not
be the judge of the past that we expect it to be.
We can prove that very easily by how selectively
we view the past from our present.
All the presents from the past the we remember
are selective beyond belief, detail shorn of context
based on images where public display was what mattered,
where the private life was the fullest life that everyone had
and it was only preserved in misremembered smatters.
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