{"id":1843,"date":"2014-02-11T19:17:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T03:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/?p=1843"},"modified":"2014-11-23T10:38:39","modified_gmt":"2014-11-23T18:38:39","slug":"dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/?p=1843","title":{"rendered":"Dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Loss of memory short-term —<\/span>
\na boon in disguise!<\/span>
\n Attention then\u00a0falls<\/span>
\non what’s in the eyes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Recollection, remembrance<\/span>
\nand their coeval, regret,<\/span>
\nmake up together<\/span>
\nthe other great threat.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wisdom if it comes<\/span>
\nmeans cutting the cord.<\/span>
\n Breaking with memories<\/span>
\nbrings as well the reward<\/span><\/p>\n

of recognition<\/span>
\nwon\u00a0at long last<\/span>
\nthat the things of youth<\/span>
\nare things of the past.<\/span><\/p>\n

***<\/span><\/p>\n

I am a bad Buddhist, actually not a Buddhist at all. But if a hypothetical sophomore were obliged to decorticate this poem for a classroom exercise, he or she would want to begin or at least finish with the observation that its author had been influenced by Zen. There is also that haunting passage in <\/em>1 Corinthians, 11:13, here in the<\/em> King James:\u00a0<\/em>When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Loss of memory short-term — a boon in disguise! Attention then\u00a0falls on what’s in the eyes. Recollection, remembrance and their coeval, regret, make up together the other great threat. Wisdom if it comes means cutting the cord. Breaking with memories brings as well the reward of recognition won\u00a0at long last that the things of youth … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “Dementia”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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