Dementia Blues
A tanka written after a holiday party at Parkview
Brain cell by brain cell
You’re disappearing from me
I’m alone again
How hard it must be for you
Disappearing from yourself
© Ken Chawkin
December 8, 2013
Fairfield, Iowa, USA
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