4. Memory

What makes me stay awake
now that we are only two?

Why made me fall asleep at eight
when we were three, then four?

Memory used to mean only thoughts I had
or else it meant thoughts
I wished I had not.
Memory was selective,

except when it was not.

He did that and I, of course,
did this
(and better or worse
for richer or poorer)
it was I who remembered best
(Well, I was the memory controller.)

Memory means now I must buy more
and he must put it in
(not there) and I say no,
not like that, confident in my position

of authority as the observer, I am
the one who gives directions to he who
makes the best of trial and error
(or I was nagging, he would say)

(if he did not say worse, in error, I would say)

The deed was done, the new route taken
for it is never one thing that Murphy allows,
again I stood and supervised
although I had been advised to leave

(him
the heck
alone)

(No, not in words, but in that look,
the one long term couples have (no not that long term,
its not a prison.)

MeeAugraphie
04/04/07

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