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Memory and Future

I don't remember much,

About what I've read,

The aliens who harvest our cattle

And the red pox the Aztecs got.

All I know is that you

Can't pull a string around me

And tie my robs because

I'm of the world and the

World is of me.

 

I'll remember the gentle things I want

like the drunk and

High howling or

Like the astronaut who came

From mars and was convinced

This was Venus and   

You threw the underwear

And Khaki shorts through the window,

On my roof.

 

I told you I'd always be here even

If you threw me inside out

The window. Wild dogs are no longer

Starving thanks to you. My underwear and

Khakis are being worn by the homeless.

My dishes and cups are shattered from

the fall. the cable still

Works miraculously, the Browns

Lost by 7 unfortunately.

I'm sopping up my bottle of

Bourbon from 1953 with a dish rag.

Maybe I could get some sleep on my bed

If I wait long enough.

 

I'll act like I know things,

But the drizzle of sounds will

Be an old man's stroke.

You'll think less of me.

You'll think I got lost in the rain

Somewhere. You'll think I evaporated

With the river. You'll think I evaporated up,

Blowing cloud rings that the

Birds showed me how to do. I just got

Lost finding you and found another

Way around.

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Written by
hank-roberts
30 / M / American
Published
Oct 18, 2012
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