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failing memory

Old Age Blues - by J. B. Pick

{ Poem }

I don’t know what I used to know.
/ I don’t say that it isn’t so,
/ I’ve just forgotten. That’s a blow.
/ When you…

Absent-mindedness - by Alison Prince

{ Poem }

I am forgetting quite a lot these days.
/ My task-list is gap-toothed; it should run on
/ Like sequenced lights in a…

Alzheimer’s - by Bob Hicock

{ Poem }

Chairs move by themselves, and books.
/ Grandchildren visit, stand
/ new and nameless, their faces’ puzzles
/ missing pieces. She’s like a fish
/
/ in deep ocean,…

Over the years - by Paula Jennings

{ Poem }

My mind’s gone all middling in the centre.

Mum - by Arthur Cochrane

{ Poem }

We sat together in silence.
/ The lost look in your eyes.
/ Once they were like eternal stars.
/
/ You were full of joy and…

Visiting Hour - by Norman MacCaig

{ Poem }

The hospital smell
/ combs my nostrils
/ as they go bobbing along
/ green and yellow corridors.
/
/ What seems a corpse
/ is trundled into a lift and…

Definitions - by William Oliphant

{ Poem }

(from The Poet as Old Age Pensioner)
/
/ You’d think, at my age
/ all those things that are definable
/ would already be defined.
/ Yet random…

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