stick yer nek out

memories are sometimes
awkward in the early
years - popping in
to see you, not
recognizing
you at all
and yet a
rare one
will be
trig-
ger-
red
by
a
scent
or
smell
or
some -
thing
just as mundane
and insane at
the same
time
out-
side
ball
balance
is import-
ant.

selective
MEMORIES
related
to thee
or this
missed
moment
and/or
opport
-unity

is it
real or
is it
made up or
is it
less in us or
is it
simply
what
it is

i'm sorry,
i don't
know
you
i
do
not
rem-
ember
any of
this or
that or
perhaps
i have
moved
on for
real at
last,
letting
memories
of the
future
comfort
me.

the
name
escapes
me at the
moment,
and the
neither
rhyme nor
reason season
is just beg-
inning, as
in the
bottom
of the
eleven
-th inning
with three
balls, two
strikes and
the bases loaded.

so, then, was
that a memory
as real or as
imagined as a
-ny other poe
-m?