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And does seeing cry out to saying, even in a
damaged mind? A wounded brain? Oh, it must, it
must
She thinks My head hurts
She thinks Something bad happened, and I don't
know who I amOr what all these
bright surrounding images are
She thinks Libbit? Is my name Libbit? I used to
knowI could talk in the used-to-know, but now my
words are like fish in the waterI want the man
with the hair on his lip
She thinks That's my Daddy, but when I try to say
his name I call "Ird! Ird!" instead, because one
flies past my windowI see
its eye like glassI see its leg, how it bends
like broke, and that word is crookitMaria and Hannah come inShe
doesn't like them the way she likes the twinsThe
twins are little, like her
She thinks I called Maria and Hannah the Big
Meanies in the used-to-know and realizes she knows
againIt's another thing that's come backThe
name for another detailShe will forget again,
but the next time she remembers, she will remember
longerShe's almost sure of it
She thinks When I try to say Hannah I say "Ird!
Ird!" When I try to say Maria I say "Wee! Wee!"
And they laugh, those meaniesI want my
Daddy and can't remember how to say him; that word
is gone againWords like birds, they fly and fly
and fly awayI say
"First! First!" But they only laugh, those meanies
I'm under the bandage, smelling the iodine, smelly
the sweaty, listening to them laughI scream at
them, scream loud, and they run awayNan Melda
comes, her head all red because her hair is
wrapped in the sna
