What is it about the absurd
that etches into memory
like carvings in stone?
Facts memorized for a test
are soon forgotten,
poems rehearsed remembered
for a longer time
but when we witness the absurd;
a freak show at a carnival,
the sighting of a UFO,
a man running naked
through a football field
these become
magnesium flashes
seared into the brain
for eternity.
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