Remember?

Margaret V.Doran

"Don’t you remember?" they demand
"How could you have forgotten?"
"If it’s not written down," I remind them,
"It doesn’t exist." Period

The problem, of course,
is that I’ve been saying for years
I would write things down
so that other people could remember

And now I find I can’t remember
what is it I was going to write
and the things I do write seem like
new material when I read them

I must impress upon my children
the importance of writing down
all the funny little things they don’t want to forget
if I can only remember to when I see them.

Oh good! I’ve written it down!

Copyright © 1997 Margaret V. Doran. All rights reserved.
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Updated July 10, 1999
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