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THE EARLY DAYS OF FORGETTING He looked like he had lived forever in Tír na nÓg. Didn't show his age 'til he was seventy. "Ah, Hades looms!" he joked. Unlike Jack Sprat he didn't eat a lot. His wife contrary to belief did that. What a turn up for the nursery rhyme. The past always so far yet near. The sweetness of the sour. This the early days of forgetting. Wearing a purple sock on his left foot. A glamorous yellow on the right. Forgetting now his own name. Forgetting who came. "And, who...are you?" he asks his wife.
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Jun 16, 2018
Jun 16, 2018 at 2:49 PM UTC
THE EARLY DAYS OF FORGETTING
THE EARLY DAYS OF FORGETTING He looked like he had lived forever in Tír na nÓg. Didn't show his age 'til he was seventy. "Ah, Hades looms!" he joked. Unlike Jack Sprat he didn't eat a lot. His wife contrary to belief did that. What a turn up for the nursery rhyme. The past always so far yet near. The sweetness of the sour. This the early days of forgetting. Wearing a purple sock on his left foot. A glamorous yellow on the right. Forgetting now his own name. Forgetting who came. "And, who...are you?" he asks his wife.
donall-dempsey
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Jun 16, 2018
Jun 16, 2018 at 2:49 PM UTC
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