"david.bircumshaw" wrote:
>
> PS
>
> Josephine
>
> the 'still remember' phrase in my little ditty is viciously ironic. It's a
> lament for time lost. Lost to the recall. I remember (har har) writing a
> little intro about my childhood for a PoetryEtc feature on my stuff, I
> enjoyed doing that but the words I wrote for that are now more vivid to me
> than the memories they represent.
My oldest memories are falling down the neighbours coal
shute at about age 16 months, and following my father up a
ladder onto the roof, two stories up, at about 18 months. I
wasnt concerned at all at the time, prolly why I ended up
caving and rockclimbing.
What I find interesting is which memories we choose to
retain. Why cant I forget the ones I _want_ to forget?
The older I get the more I feel like a
> house full of fading ghosts, so many conversations, so many people known,
> and they all flutter away into an invisible current of air that is time.
Boy do I relate to that!
J
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