Apoptosis
Jim Murdoch
Disinterest and neglect
tend to just happen;
things slip by or away
unnoticed, unmourned.
Abandonment, however,
takes some actual effort;
it’s doable; what’s hard
is the forgetting.
To forget is a verb,
so technically
it’s a “doing word,”
but how does one forget?
I remember visiting Dad
once and found him,
as per, sitting alone in
that old chair of his.
I asked what he was up to
and he sighed and said,
“Oh, nothing. Forgetting.”
“You mean not remembering?”
“I mean not trying to remember;
there is a difference; atrophy’s
the natural order.
Coffee?”
