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Tegan Kehoe

What
is
this
thing
we
call
memory
because
I
have
memories
that
are
not
mine.
Image begets
an allusion
where did
this come
from this
language that
tells what
to remember?
Some concepts
emerge as sentences
symbols like a rabbit’s foot
but these,
these are from life
how are they now itemized
trivialized
sidebar stories in a magazine?
Images...
...
happen,
we recall
what we know we all saw
it’s a token
yes, by now we all know
that we all watched two towers fall
on our tvs.
Words happen too,
a murky idea
of cultural memory
do you remember your grandmother’s genocide?
Because I don’t
not you
and further removed
generation by generation.
Maybe my tokens
are like your genetic memory
pieces of things that aren’t really ours
even though they are attached to us
we carry them around in our pockets
like coins to spend.

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