Memory is a lonely matinee for the cursed.
A cast of unpleasant characters
Parades across the mind's stage,
Taking bows every day,
Twice on Sundays --
Well-supported by embarrassment,
Under the painstaking direction
Of bitter regret.
Copyright 2007, by Jon Gregory. Published in the Austin International Poetry Festival's 2002 anthology. Written in 1993.
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