Sorting thoughts
organizing them into groups with titles,
selecting papers that stay
those that go,
personal history:
tempting to toss a grade school report card,
the last pay stub from previous employers,
fridge magnets that hold special meaning
souvenirs from my travels,
photos of nieces that are grown,
birthday cards,
and the gigantic stack of carefully torn squared off scrap paper,
family history,
and of course important folders for
tax information
mortgage documents
insurance papers
Unexpected finds of
computer cords, and cords, and cords
obsolete computer connecters
red paper clips
So much like going through
photos in boxes and bags
holding them up to the light
remembering the road of life .
“Nothing is a waste that makes a memory.”
~ Ned Rorem, composer
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