Comments | deponti: From the LJ of <strong class="lj-user"><a href="/read/user/usha658">usha658</a></strong>

deponti

From the LJ of usha658

Sep 06, 2006 21:54

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Lovely poem...

ForgetfulnessThe name of the author is the first to go ( Read more... )

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asakiyume September 6 2006, 16:45:33 UTC

Billy Collins is one of my favorites--this is a great one. Back in the depths of my journal I posted one, "The First Geniuses," that I really like...

deponti September 6 2006, 17:35:58 UTC

could you excavate it and let's see it,please? This is the first of Billy Collins' poems I have seen.

asakiyume September 6 2006, 17:43:22 UTC

It's here

sad... wondernoon September 6 2006, 17:06:51 UTC

Gosh feels sad to read this poem...I suppose it is going to be an awful feeling to grow very old and really start forgetting things...and I can iamgine this must mean a lot to Alzheimer's patients - well more so for the people who care for them...my friend used to tell me about how heart breaking it was when her father forgot her daughter's name...

suzan_s September 7 2006, 12:56:53 UTC

Do I know this man? Yes, or, perhaps not, I don't remember.