It, Again

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If you write it down

you remember it.

If you write it down

you get rid of it.

Well, which is it?

I'm begging you,

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Poet, please choose!

To need

to get rid of it

is to remember it,

and to remember it

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rids you not.

If it is writ,

it is rid from your brain,

but forever remembered

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on the page.

So, the page

becomes your beloved

memory, or,

if it torments you,

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your enemy.

The only way to wage

which is which

is to rip up the page

on which it is writ

and begin it

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again. Over

and over again.