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Unremember That

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Disappointment, Disillusionment, Information, Truth / August 16, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Tell me things I won't mind forgetting
Amy Hempel - "Reasons to Live"

Though nowadays it might be wise
to treat all news as lies
obits and dead babies still seep through

And that thing you said about my perfect friend
that modified the modifier and the teller too
please tell me
that weren't true lest I lose not one friend but two

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Chivalry Was Not Dead But Damp

Audio Recordings, Relationships, Travel / tagged Disillusionment, Quests / June 1, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

It was a dark and stormy knight
that led his lame horse
through winter wet and counted out his woes

An unending drip
ran down his rusty helmet
and burned and blurred his visored eyes

He was as cross
as the frayed cross on his tunic
and swearing oaths at all the oaths he'd sworn

Damsels, damn all damsels
their gratitude had seldom lasted
beyond the ride back to the castle

Today he felt more kinship with the dragon
and would have fain laid down his sword
at the mouth of any breath-warmed cave

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Sandi Hebley on How Fallen AngelsAugust 17, 2025
Indeed!
Nancy Fierstien on Unremember ThatAugust 16, 2025
Gonna be inclined to share this one at my Poets' Tea reading tomorrow afternoon. Thanks, Neil!
Sandi Hebley on Memory Lane JoggingAugust 5, 2025
Lovely!
Sandi Hebley on Dad and Death at WarAugust 4, 2025
😢
Sandi Hebley on One for the AuntiesAugust 3, 2025
Wow!

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