That Old Familiar Unfamiliar

There’s an unsettling moment
Reading the news you’re convinced
That the most futuristic

News reports are ones you’ve read
Before, and in fact once knew
Rather better than you do,

Like a sci-fi film in which
A character’s deleted
Or violently submerged

Memories start to surface,
Déjà vu and jamais vu
Crashing into each other,

The day suddenly estranged
From whatever it is now.