you told me to forget about you
God knows I’m trying
but the main problem
for me
is that I spent ten years
practicing
every single day
to remember you
I became very good at it
I got so I could remember you
without even trying
while I was making breakfast
or putting air in the tires of my bike
or hanging my towel on the rack
I got so good at it
that I can’t stop I can’t
not do it
they say spending 10,000 hours at something
makes you an expert
in that case, I am
The World’s Foremost Authority
on remembering you
I have remembered you into life again
dragged you from the fog
that obscures what happened to me
until you’re standing in my living room
under the ceiling fan
holding a stone
engraved with a single Chinese character
a stone that will fall if you drop it
9 October 2012
on a bus between
Columbus, GA
& Montgomery, AL
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