Remember when you told me you forgot your middle name. And that you didn't remember if you even had one. That your parents weren't particularly religious; that they forgot God. And that you've been forgetful lately. You couldn't remember the last time you picked flowers. Or a president. Or shot a gun. Or put a flower in a gun. And that Vietnam was like Iraq. And France would bring WWIII. "What's my middle name?" You asked. "Where's the Middle East?"
"Didn't the nukes dropped in the Nevada desert sand create glass?"
"How many windows does this room have? Can you see?"
"The eyes are the windows to the soul."
My eyes feel old Is what my grandmother would say when she was tired. She would play solitaire. After each game she would shuffle the deck three ways. I would always mix them up scattered on the tabletop. That's what I remember from the sixties.