Too Sad, Darling
(in memory of Esther Wagner)
We go from no
memories and all
experience to combinations
of experiences and memories to
no experiences and all
memories. Life
at first opens up all
around our minds and us. Then
the thing known as Later
abandons the mind to its own
paltry self, its wee storehouse
of snapshots, shreds of dialogue,
and remember that time?
"Too sad, darling," is what
the grand woman said,
with a laugh,
"but fix yourself something
to drink and one for me.
Sit down and we'll talk,
reminisce, just us,
about experience."
Hans Ostrom
Copyright 2008 Hans Ostrom
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