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Ode to The Persistence of Memory

  
                  tick    
      tock            tock    
 tick                       tick    
tock          |___         tock    
    tick                     tick    
       tock           tock    
                 tick    
The hands of time keep moving  
Without stopping    
                                or s-l-o-w-i-n-g down  
But in my mind I’m drawn toward some surreal dream  
To somewhere in –  
                                 - and out of memory  
   
Maybe it’s the    
                         nostalgia  
Maybe it’s the    
                        melancholy  
Maybe it’s my    
                        fondness for the sentimental of yesteryear  
Perhaps the recollection of life    
and times m  
                      e  
                        l  
                         t  
                             i             g  
                                   n               away  
                                              into an illusion    
Born from the subconscious    
                                                 Rising up to the surface  
   
         Time becomes relative  
     b  
         e    
        n  
   t    
    and    
            w  
        a  
     r  
        p  
            e  
                 d    
in my mind…  
When something    
                     Like  
         “The other day” may mean    
                 -decades ago-  
while recent fleeting moments |||| escape ||||  
                                                    Only to be captured  
                                 By distorted colors    
and purported words  
   
I become entranced    
                   O   O  
          By \_ Dali _/    
  and his    
interpretation    
of   mind  
and  
        time  
as the  
           persistence of memory  
m  
     e  
         l        s  
             t      away…      
Author's Note
Salvador Dali - The Persistence of Memory (1931)
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