"Almost".
"Almost all the words we've said to one another are gone,
and if they were retrieved verbatim,
we might not acknowledge them.
But the tenor of our talk has been constant across decades.
Tenor is what we meant by soul.
For instance, the way we joke by using
non-sequiturs, elliptical remarks which
deliberately suppress context in advance of time's rub out.
When size really counts, the billboard
says, showing the product, tiny, in one corner.
So we need to search for it.
Come find me.
I stand behind these words."