11.923. KEEPSAKE

KEEPSAKE

I only remember something fell

to the floor; I can't remember

what it may have been. Not to

profess my allegiance, but a

Cabinet of Dr. Caligari this is

not. It had to be something

quite simple. 'Able was I before

I saw Elba.' Do you know what

I mean? 

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The outer man, from his inner

heart seems only to think in circles:

The curlicue maven who once was

his mother; the many choices he 

made along his sacrificial way.

I get so tired of hearing all that;

I begin to sound like a Bob Dylan

rat, signing notations in a little

red notebook. The notebook, lost.

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Bob, I have it. remember. June 28th,

1974, in Petersborough; we were

bending down to restring a guitar,

and it fell from your upper pocket.

I said nothing at the time, just

thinking to hock it. I still keep it,

Baby Blue. And there's nothing

you can do....
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This is all a dishevelled mess, and by
now the answers are gone. Whatever
you've missed, you should count as
coincidence. Long, long, the sun won't
shine, and the Masters of War
are all busy dying.