Memory Loss

 
Is there a word for forgetting what a word is?

You know, just a single word

A term, I think they call it

I can’t even remember the word for that

So how am I supposed to remember the word for forgetting words?

 

I think there must be a word for it

There always is

I remember a world of fancy words

Vaguely

A once upon a time world

That never was

 

I’m nostalgic but have little idea of how I arrived here

I can’t remember what I’m forgetting

 

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  1. Fancy words (A once upon a time world/That never was)
    might well be forgotten in favor of simple, direct, honest ones–like “I can’t remember,” which is not easy for me to say (either) because I am afraid of being thought daffy, or of really being daffy.

    So I tell myself, let’s carry on anyway. But you, you’re doing just fine with words. Keep writing!

  2. Is it sad that I knew immediately that the word for missing words is “aphasia” even as I totally got the metaphor and beauty of that last broken statement?

    Also, I knew the word because I suffer from it. Watch me struggle to spit out a common every day word, and you’ll see me blather through synonym after synonym and launch into elaborate descriptions with no success.

I'd love to know what you think, concrit is especially welcomed on fiction pieces. Thank you.

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