Jamie Severin - Remember To Remember the Roses and Magnolias, Then Remember the Trucks

Fragments of the painting, the doorway into heaven haunt my mind
Isolated by the forces created by the lengths that space will go to not meet time
Remember to remember, I jot down on a notepad
Then I forget that I wrote, but I remember what I had

I had roses and magnolias on the windowsill
Down at the house I used to live in, by the corner store, yet still
I can’t remember the racing horses that I saw just yesterday
But I remember the truck my daddy drove, the '67 Chevrolet

My name is an intangible mess of sounds and audio decay
My voice belongs to someone who I don’t think is alive today
Or at least that’s what the woman who comes in to visit tells me
She says that Evie died a long time ago in 1973

I remember the roses
I remember the magnolias
I remember to forget
I remember the trucks
I remember the voices
I remember Evie
I remember everything

And yet, I remember nothing