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  memory

memory
increasingly
is something that abandons me.

my recall
will sometimes stall
and i'll remember not at all.

i could fret
or get upset
but i do something better yet:

laugh a lot
with every thought
and then forget that i forgot!






from: When I Draw Near Unto the Waters
Copyright © 2000
by J.D. Deutschendorf