Whatsits You Once Knew
It begins with your anonymous felt-tipped redaction
Deleting each moment of disliked content
Crawled deep beneath your skin
Like a sore forgotten muscle
Lingering like the layered taste of this morning's cigarette
It's stiff and it's stale - caked onto your shoe
It changes your gait and the curve of your spine
When you take notice, it's debris you throw
Into the fire to see what happens when it burns
A toxic smell of melting plastic
Molecules buried in ash
So long, you chuckle
Cross me off the list of Whatsits you once knew
Like
Map coordinates
Calculus limits
Card game rules
And old promises
Bits of Life you squint at
And look up when you choose
Thoughts imprinted, impressed and embraced
Across neurons that pooled as my mind
It was hidden coughing in your cracking knuckles
I missed each of the syllables and signs
Shaking off the dust and swaying
As the street hum shakes in my bones
So long, you chuckle
Cross me off the list of Whatsits you once knew
Like
Map coordinates
Calculus limits
Card game rules
And old promises
Bits of Life you squint at
And look up when you choose
Deleting each moment of disliked content
Crawled deep beneath your skin
Like a sore forgotten muscle
Lingering like the layered taste of this morning's cigarette
It's stiff and it's stale - caked onto your shoe
It changes your gait and the curve of your spine
When you take notice, it's debris you throw
Into the fire to see what happens when it burns
A toxic smell of melting plastic
Molecules buried in ash
So long, you chuckle
Cross me off the list of Whatsits you once knew
Like
Map coordinates
Calculus limits
Card game rules
And old promises
Bits of Life you squint at
And look up when you choose
Thoughts imprinted, impressed and embraced
Across neurons that pooled as my mind
It was hidden coughing in your cracking knuckles
I missed each of the syllables and signs
Shaking off the dust and swaying
As the street hum shakes in my bones
So long, you chuckle
Cross me off the list of Whatsits you once knew
Like
Map coordinates
Calculus limits
Card game rules
And old promises
Bits of Life you squint at
And look up when you choose
Credits
Writer(s): Callie Stewart
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