#fading memory

Seing your picture in a frame

Has me missing a stranger

I can't name

Maybe for you it's the same

And I'm just a stranger stuck in memory

A mistake you regret

But not enough to feel sorry

Your smile in my dreams

Still pretty when it's blurry

And when you're on your knees

I can't control myself

When you're begging, please

You know what it does to me

You're such a fucking tease

Maybe it's why i didn't stay

a poem I wrote a few months ago. in my feelings right now.

Degeneration of the Past #photography #familysnapshots #memory #narrative #abstracting #remembering #writing #journaling

I finished Patient H.M. today. I have always been interested in memory and have read some of what has been written about this famous patient whose profound memory loss (induced almost certainly) by a bilateral resection of his medial temporal lobes. There was much personal and political intrigue and an appalling sense of the lack of ethical treatment of human research subjects in the 1940s, 50s…