Try to Remember

The New World Born

Memory is an elusive lover

She tries to avoid me

I try to remember

Substack memories

Only last a day

So frustrating

The way it was before

When I was with you

The boy I remember

Percy S

I left him smiling at me on the porch

So lonely

Never to see him again

The girl I remember

Bleached blond

So much older

She was 15

She said

Girls notice you

If you turn around

She said

They will be looking at you

Not

Ann without an e

Not surely

Anne of Green Gables

My last chapter

What was it about?

Are we ever ready for our last chapter?

Memory sprinkles dust on sunlight

Freud says dreams paint a memory

We always wished for

Sparkles on a faerie

Did General Gage write his momentous letter

Of August 27, 1774

General Gage had vowed in an August 27 letter to his superior in London, Lord Dartmouth, “I apprehend that I shall soon be obliged to march a Body of Troops into that Township, and perhaps into others, as occasion warrants, to preserve the peace.”

That harkened a coming rebellion in America

Lexington and Concord a memory away

The Lords in London so conscious

That unlike revolts in Scotland and Ireland

The people of America

Were armed

The boy in the apartment next door

Blowing his head off

Hegel was born in 1770

August 27

Same year as Beethoven and the King of Prussia

Frederick William III

And

Sir Walter Scott

Napoleon the year before

John Quincy Adams the magic three

1767

And they all knew each other

Before 1770

But I don’t care about moons and tides

Do you?

Abigail Smith?

Queen Louise of Prussia

Rivalling the Brandenburg Gate

With her sister

So sexy

the two princesses so shocking

If I could sing

I would ask you

To

Try to remember *

*Johann Gottfried Schadow

Did the four horse sculpture

So famous on the Brandenburg Gate

He also did the controversial

Sculpture of the two beautiful princesses

Sisters

One of them Queen Louise of Prussia

So sexy

So lonely