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 *
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


Who knew NYC Detective Lenny Briscoe moonlighted on off-Broadway as El Gallo? Or that a Chipmunks-like version of a Bobby Vinton song I first heard while hospitalized for pneumonia would provide background for a hip-hop artist’s lament. Or that a book like Anne of Green Gables would still carry so much truth, with or without the movie?
You know how to carry the golden thread, that runs through history, honey David. I always learn from you and I love the way you think🤗 be well and cozy,❤️ Lady G