The insistent calming affect
comes off the bittersweet taste
from the joy of particulars.
The utter wastefulness
of a retentive mind
to gather and to store
particulars away
as if re-visitation
were a necessity of cognition
and that the posture of retention
is as a call to importance,
a call to prioritize a worth
as if possession
were a superior measure
and this custody
was other than menial in nature.
Why would we go around
with vast packets
of baseball card-like memories
and proceed to dwell into a culture
of fair exchange, as in
my cards for yours,
your memories for mine,
if we had not been displaced
by doing, for being
by posture, for presence
by issue and topic, for eminence?
Yet, there is,
the insistent
calming affect
that comes off the bitter taste
from the joy
called out
and called upon
by particulars . . .
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