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What’s your first feeling,

Not the first pictures you saw 

but what's your first feeling? 

Is it the kitchen and you're 3,

The margarine stick and the taste of butter 

The thing you craved at 3,

No dairy, not allowed dairy,

so you ate the margarine, 

Took slices off it 

Cuz you craved the butter.

But what was your first thought,

Your first feeling,

The first vision

That grinds thru your mind 

In 8 millimeter flicker,

In tiny photos 

Black and white realities 

Copies, and copies, with dates,

Or VHS

Taunting you now with static lines,

The realities of failed technology 

Out-dated,

You didn’t back it up?  

So, what do you see? 

What does your mind eye feel? 

The atrocities of your memory,

Not banal pictures of Santa encountered,

But the frying pan

On your mother’s temple?

What is your first memory.