Yesterday & Today

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  Yesterday is Memory's secretary.
  Yesterday is its editor,
  Whiting out life's drivel.
  Today is Memory's predator.

  Memory rents storage space
  From a temperamental landlord, the Soul.
  But Today selectively reaches into
  That big bottomless bowl.

  With Truth,
  Memory is always holding hands.
  But most of the time
  They have different plans.

  Now
  says to Then
"Yes,
"I do remember when."

  Then says
"That's not how it was, kid!"
  Now says
"What matter if a Didn't becomes a Did?"

  Memory must always
  Be on its toes
  Wherefrom come one thousand sparks?
  Who really knows?

  The nose is Memory's sentinel:
  A certain smell recalls 1959
  And sounds of music are
  Thickly encrusted on Memory's spine.

  When all the Yesterdays meet
  It's either swim or sink
  But Memory's blueprint
  Is  written in erasable ink.

  It is everything ever (or never)
  Said,  done or heard
  But Today is Memory's mouthpiece
  And always has the last word.


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Footnote
YESTERDAY & TODAY was written in 1998: more than six thousand yesterdays ago.
Today, it is the copyrighted property of LCSoL.
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