House in the medina of Chefchaouen, Morocco: photo by Okrasitna, August 2007
Things learned from travels
southward across the mountains
and the deserts
into those mysterious lands
you'd have thought
were you a thinker
would never be forgot --
but, as with the years
memory unravels,
the old fool
who imagines
he remembers
a blue house
only proves random
sequencing's the last memory
function to go. Finally
you know
only the things you didn't think
you knew, and would
as soon
forget those things also as not.
southward across the mountains
and the deserts
into those mysterious lands
you'd have thought
were you a thinker
would never be forgot --
but, as with the years
memory unravels,
the old fool
who imagines
he remembers
a blue house
only proves random
sequencing's the last memory
function to go. Finally
you know
only the things you didn't think
you knew, and would
as soon
forget those things also as not.
Legzira Beach near Sidi Ifni, Morocco: photo by Ifni95, 2 June 2009
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