081413 #worm Or is the line of demarcation smaller, more individual? For that matter, is the individual synonymous with the small? It depends on the aspect of your radar screen, one supposes. Maybe the difference between then and now is Bnabe's death. Maybe when the hummingbird hummed over his coffin as the first teaspoonful of dirt hit--coffin? Wouldn't he have preferred a fiery consumption? A return into the smoke he always said he was a pillar of? But who were Him and Me to protest, mere particles in the fringes of the funeral's great wave? A funeral's a cruelly public affair, and the property rights to a dead man's soul get portioned according to civil laws penned without regard to the quirks of unofficial, lifetime-to-lifetime clanships--maybe at that moment, the old days became the new.