Now here's a question...
What would I possibly be reciting in my oblivious dotage?
I think the last time I committed things to memory in a conscious way was 
when I was at school, many of the speeches in Shakespeare's plays - mainly 
The Merchant Of Venice & Macbeth... but I then discovered, at the time, I 
could recognise most of the lines from Hamlet (who said them, what the reply 
wat etc). I also found I could moan out every Bob Dylan song from his 1st LP 
to Highway 61, many - but not every - Beatle songs from the same period, and 
so, so, many singles from the charts. If my senility comes in when I'm older 
than I am now I guess the carers who hear me won't stand a chance at 
figuring out what's going on - even if I don't move from one to the other 
without a pause!
I don't think I've used my memory for pleasure as much since then! It's now 
very bad.
Bob


>From: sally evans <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: Stone the crows: a question
>Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 18:33:28 +0100
>
>What would you like to be reciting if you were aged and forgetful of other
>things? or what would you be likely to be reciting?
>I think I'd remember bits of Under Milk Wood, and bits of Gerard Manley
>Hopkins, and some of the Beatles songs. I'd probably also remember the 
>hymns
>we sang over and over as children though I am not so keen about them.
>Likewise poems that were read to me as a kiddy, such as "I lost my poor
>little doll, dears" I would not like to end up reciting that.  I might
>recite Omar Khayyam but I would get the lines and verses all mixed up.
>
>whan that Aprille with her shoures soote
>has fliung the stone that put the stars to flight -
>and when you let the sun in mind it wipes its feet -
>it will shake out like shining from shook foil.
>
>well I hope my descendants dont have to put up with it that's all
>SallyE