ridiculousness

she said that
her dinner guests
had remember me as
‘the really beautiful one’
Mama mentioned that
he could never recall
any unkindness
being uttered from my lips
and you,
when you called today
remembered the places
we had been
the things spoken there
the tone of the clouds
so clearly-
someone less demanding
would be pleased with
with such pleasantries
but
who gives a damn
about being remembered?
i
long for
immediate consumption
an
inhaling of my here and now
each line read ravenously
breaths consumed rapidly
so
that you are too fatigued
for the mundaneness
of memories