The Hamlet Project

The only time people say this anymore is in movies
Or when they’re joking
Or in long lists of goodbye words
Such as those mentioned
In cute children’s songs in musicals featuring goat herds.
Why did it fall out of favor?
When?
When did it drift further and further out to sea
Until it slipped
Over the horizon
Into the past?
Watching words ebb and flow
Is like that sometimes
They bob along on the waves of culture
And then one day
They just slip into the salt water
Their little heads
Never resurfacing more.