Fossil ...

Sunday, October 30, 2005


Dragonfly on a distant clothesline, against a bright noon sky.

What will a movie actress who is old, grand mother of a few children, and doing only motherly roles now, feel when she sees a very old, black n white movie song of hers in which shes a gigglish teenage girl, and in which her group of friends are teasing her for daydreaming?

Will she be able to 'remember' what she was feeling when doing that thing? or will the video clip be just a fossil, a dangling reference to memory, written onto many times over?

Can we 'remember' or 'recall' exactly what we where 'feeling' at a point well lost in time? Or are the 'feelings' fossilized by layers and layers of new ones dumped over?

Dig up one of your childhood photos and stare at that innocent looking strange being.

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