Physical Forgetfulness
Yessica Klein
Some locations are more suitable than others to place something
you’d like to forget. The freezer, for example: forgotten homemade
chicken soup, a bottle of cheap vodka. Old suitcases are also ideal:
chuck the memories in with the expired suncream from that
holiday in Greece. The basement should be opened only twice:
when you move in and when you move out. Or place your
forgettables on your highest shelf: if you’re lucky, your shrinking
memories will fall softly and dustless behind a bed or a country
where you will never sleep again.
you’d like to forget. The freezer, for example: forgotten homemade
chicken soup, a bottle of cheap vodka. Old suitcases are also ideal:
chuck the memories in with the expired suncream from that
holiday in Greece. The basement should be opened only twice:
when you move in and when you move out. Or place your
forgettables on your highest shelf: if you’re lucky, your shrinking
memories will fall softly and dustless behind a bed or a country
where you will never sleep again.
Yessica Klein is a Brazilian born writer based in Berlin after stints in São Paulo, London, Liverpool, and Lisbon. She holds a MA in Creative Writing from Kingston University (UK) and her writing has been featured on 3:AM, SALT., The Moth, and The Lighthouse Review. She was shortlisted for the 2022 Aesthetica Magazine Creative Writing Awards and the 2017 Jane Martin Poetry Prize.
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