Ah yes, disputed memories and false memories...
And sometimes years of blankness...
My wife's psychotherapist (waited till late fifties to try one) seems to
want her to say to an empty chair: Mum, why did you never love me?!
(sibling rivalry a factor presumably - feeling that sister was favoured.
Mercifully I never had that.)
Mere age difference makes sibling memories differ. My sister was only
22 months older, but saw and experienced so much that escaped me.
Now it's a case of oh why didn't ask her about - a hundred things.
Max
On 24/03/11 2:36 AM, "Patrick McManus" <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Thanks Ah we the old ones !!!my sister is still with us and usually
> contradicts my memories -NO IT WAS NOT LIKE THAT!!!!!
> A memorable one was to be told that my mother never liked me!!( low marks
> for sensitivity!!)
> Patrick of the false memory syndromings:-)
>
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> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Max Richards
> Sent: 23 March 2011 12:56
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> Subject: snap: night thoughts
>
> Waking at night,
> besieged by memories,
> I hear the clock chime
> the hours and half-hours,
>
> put my mind to making
> sentences, counting
> the syllables, hoping
> next day to jot them down.
>
> Memory snaps they may be,
> and who to check them with? -
> now that my sister's gone -
> true or imagined?
>
> no-one's here or anywhere
> to gainsay what I say.
> That's the old ones -
> as for more recent years,
>
> memories of them seem -
> sparse, colourless,
> neither here nor there...
>
>
>
>
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