so they want to erase my memories
no – they want to turn off specific memories
i dont want nobody reading my memories
but these memories make you sick
which memories make me sick
my non-declarative or declarative memories
look – i learnt to shoot to kill
i remember how i killed those i meant to kill
if they take away my non-declarative memories
how do i protect myself in a violent society
if they take away my declarative memories
how do i remember those i shouldnt kill in a violent society
stop the quest for traumatic excess
give us sweet memories
so we forget learned bad memories
without rehearsal memories become harder to access
you see – memory doesnt go off
it is the ability to retrieve it that goes off
… yesterday my memories were erased
today i got hit by a baseball bat in a hijack
and got acquired savant syndrome – memories unerased
and all bad memories are back.
fkregie 2017.
March 10, 2017 at 13:49
Non declarative memories or implicit memories are indelible.
Bessel Vander Kolk does elaborate this in Body keeps the score….. However there is redemption…. a sort of over writing ….. that does the same function as an erasure , yet there is no erasure, The power of unpleasantness associated with the memory does not exist…..
But the lesson is not forgotten.
Insightful poem…..
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March 10, 2017 at 14:15
many thanks for reading and your insightful contribution to the issue.
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