apart from the especially remarkable moments their days kept unrolling easily and within the scope of relative safety
they moved on from one another's disasters grew to accept or tune out any resulting disfigurements
there was some pressure from the many many feet that still could be yet to drop
but this was a familiar and traditional pressure against which generations had developed mechanisms
their story was to live under new pressures develop new mechanisms or
survive to tell of their sufferings
for example those ones who'd fallen through The Crack
learned to live in their bodies but in our reality
but they had to come together in a circle
and talk about their putative worlds
they turned out to be places where suffering had a different definition but one that they could hardly remember