Remember

I remember the newspaper daily

They would take a pile of them

And use it for the household fuel.

You remember Benkovac at the news,

cold-blooded shoulder hugs

and disbelief.

I remember, shelves were empty.

She took the flour but

there was no sugar.

She remembers a boy poorly dressed,

introduced to the class in the middle of the school year,

his voice thin and broken.

He remembers his only classmate

when he was seven,

and the black uniform man with a rifle.

I still remember the bridges

crashed like a mighty

disconnection augurity.

He remembers the endless vehicle queues

on the roads and eating bacon.

I remember, days were dark

when the night falls and

the stars shone never so bright.

She remembers how she couldn’t

dry her tears after becoming aware

of how it must have felt.

You remember what they told you.

They remember what they told them to.

We remember everything

we would be most grateful to forget

and unanimously forgive.

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