after the fact
is worse than
not at all;
it can never correct
the full extent
of the injustice,
and tends to leave
the aggrieved
bereft
of a most-pleasant
fantasy of sweet
revenge exacted.
Moreover,
such expungings are,
at best, sacrilegious
to the autocratic
enterprises of history
and physics,
both of which contend
that every action, once taken,
casts with a firmness
the faultless exactitude
of the world we live in,
and it'd be a fate,
not just worse, but
more impossible than death
if we ever endeavored
to go back.
