On The Verge Of Forgetting Poem by RIC BASTASA

i have mistaken
tuesday for a wednesday

i left my cellphone
on top of the lectern

i bring the wrong book
in class

mistaken Judy anne
for a Van

oh, i forget perhaps
that i am getting into a

fifty-one
wrinkled still in


love,
rusting love


beside me in this
room

is the sea
and i am this iron

wrapped in
white salt

i do not wish to
correct all these

i am prepared
into this forgotten
ness

time shall come
and claim me then

without a trace of
memory

and that will simply
be happiness for me.