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the persistence of memory

October 26, 2022
By EmilyTheKiwi PLATINUM, Flemington, New Jersey
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EmilyTheKiwi PLATINUM, Flemington, New Jersey
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“Picture a wave. In the ocean. You can see it, measure it, its height, the way the sunlight refracts when it passes through. And it's there. And you can see it, you know what it is. It's a wave.

And then it crashes in the shore and it's gone. But the water is still there. The wave was just a different way for the water to be, for a little while. You know it's one conception of death for Buddhists: the wave returns to the ocean, where it came from and where it's supposed to be."
-The Good Place

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time,

so strange,

moves slowly,

whirling, stretching,

splayed out over earth,

it taunts us with its voice

and passes briefly,

now unnoticed,

a mirage

known as

time

Photo by Benjamin Rascoe on Unsplash

The author's comments:

This poem was inspired by the Salvador Dalí painting of the same name.

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