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[Deja Q]

Or to put a face on it:


And a poem from that website: http://www.cameraquery.com/

Refuse bitter resignation


Defy those who would bury
the past to reinvent themselves,
those who compartmentalize,
those who exclude and segregate,
those who cultivate a studied
amnesia
and ask you to do likewise,
those who would archive
your existence or simply
remove you at whim. Defy
their stated and unstated
regime of
fragmentation and forgetting,
of repression.
Theirs is not the road to joy,
but to foreclosure
and a confining sadness,
an enclosing reserve,
quite unlike a delirious,
flaming sorrow that heats up
the flow of desire
for connection.
Defy, defy, defy.
Freedom is communicating.
Burn brightly those synapses
of memory, those words of light
--from west to east,
from south to north!
Project a thousand pictures,
five thousand pictures,
for each of those days
and nights coursing
on blue, green, red paths
their phantom images
to the brain
from the systole and diastole
of the heart,