Old Timer’s Disease
Is a peach pit rolling
In an empty bowl
Your thought makes a
Singing sound on metal
Are you the ring
The roll or the rock
A caretaker takes your
Bowl away to wash
Was there a stone or
Is it a cereal bowl with
Rounds of infinite oat
The ones with zeros
You are a vessel
In the top rack
As the dishwasher
Rains and rinses
What you remember is
Wrung and wronged
I recall the peach
Pith not the pit
The drip and drool
Not the fleeting flesh
If a thought forgets
To die did it ever live
–Ticky Kennedy
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NOTE
“What is memory without forgetting?” asks Oliver Hardt, a cognitive psychologist studying the neurobiology of memory at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. “It’s impossible,” he says. […] Hardt thinks that Alzheimer’s disease might also be better understood as a malfunction of forgetting rather than remembering. If forgetting is truly a well-regulated, innate part of the memory process, he says, it makes sense that dysregulation of that process could have negative effects. “To have proper memory function, you have to have forgetting.”
Nature, July 2019, The Forgotten Part of Memory: Long thought to be a glitch of memory, researchers are coming to realize that the ability to forget is crucial to how the brain works.
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