Where You Are in Consequence

Your neighbors who do
The heavy lifting,
The work, the voodoo
With you in the skull,
Decide before you

And recall as well
Ahead of the thought
That you knew that smell—
Others remembered
First, but you can’t tell.

You can’t disagree,
Either. What recalled
Told you what was seen,
And you saw. No cause,
But chains don’t come free.