How Do You Do? - illustrated poem

How Do You Do?

greeting cards and grinding wheels
 the words of
   days
 gone by
   are
picturesque
  clouds.

Gilders & Glass Dealers
   stand at counters
   long gone
  smudged aprons
  hard soled shoes.

   The herds on the plains
      are still the same,
    though sparse.

  The rain on the roof
     is still  the  same,
  same,  same,  same, same
            as
       what,
         why
     is  still the  same.