[New-Poetry] forget it

[Anny Ballardini]

I did not want to mention it because I did not know if it was yours, but I 
thought of Alzheimer. Incredible how it stands out.

>From Tad:

> No -- sorry, I meant to credit it. It's Donald Finkel, who mostly stayed 
> under the radar screen and wrote great poetry.
>
> Sadly, Don himself has slipped into the world of Alzheimer's he wrote 
> about here.
>
>
> From: "Anny Ballardini" <anny.ballardini at tin.it>
>
>
>> Is this yours? It gives the idea of a Burden, the title is appropriate. 
>> It digs down to the very essence of a depressive state by which complete 
>> isolation stands as the only solution.
>>
>> From: "TheOldMole" <tad at opus40.org>
>>
>>
>>> Here's another, kind of on the same theme.
>>>
>>> Burden
>>>
>>>
>>> Nouns were the first to slip away.
>>> Was it because they were easier to forget,
>>> or the most dispensable?
>>>
>>> Funerals back then were milling
>>> with nouns whose names he'd forgotten,
>>> if he'd ever met them.
>>>
>>> Evidently, somewhere out there
>>> a swarm of improper nouns
>>> had prospered and multiplied.
>>>
>>> Odd nouns came knocking every day
>>> looking for work, till the old bard
>>> left off answering the door.
>>>
>>> Verbs were beasts of another persuasion.
>>> For a while some stayed behind,
>>> pacing the halls or curled on the living room sofa.
>>>
>>> But they had to be fed. Some nights
>>> they sank their claws in his thigh
>>> when they were hungry.
>>>
>>> As the last syllable crept away,
>>> he felt a peculiar lightness,
>>> like the wisp that rises,
>>>
>>> from a smoldering wick—
>>> as if words were the burden
>>> he'd been bearing, all his life.
>>>
>>