Flashcards

Flashcards


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Flashcards

I challenge my memory

with tricks and games

to remind me of what I ought to know

the fleeting knowledge

leaving my brain

untested

I need to remember these words

　

電機でsか　　　     How are you？

脱俗          　            an escape from your everyday routine

恋人                          lover

Guessing/knowing the answers

on the cards, to remind

me of what I already know

intuitively

but can’t put to words

and speak out loud

はい、ありがとうございます        Yes Sir, thank you

生きがい　                                      a reason for getting up in the morning

跪く　　                                          kneel

v. be in or assume a position in which the body is supported by a knee or the knees, as     when praying or showing submission

I made flashcards

hoping to remember

the everything of you

going over them

in between

the times of you

testing myself

わたちがやります                            I will do it

提出する                                          To submit

v. accept or yield to a superior force or to the authority or will of another person.

“To learn from example is to submit to authority.”

I’d like to take each

flashcard

and crumple them

In my hand

making a pile of memories

thoughts of you

私わ私の元恋人お欠如                                I miss my ex-lover

愛人                                                             the woman you used to fuck

I’m going to

make a pile of your memories

and take a match to them

dropping it on the pile

and watching it burn

I challenge my memory

to disremember

your voice

your touch

your place in my life

the flashcards gone

not needed anymore

the memory of you

is seared in my mind

一護一会             　　

11th November 2019