Lost Poems in Computer Crash

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There is a poem in one of Anne Lamott's books that was read at the funeral of a character named Jessie, I believe. I think the poem was called or began; "I forget....."

And another poem entitled, The Merman which began; " you sleep as though under water...."

I can't recall the author's names and would like to find them again.

Anyone?

― Beth Natale, Tuesday, 25 April 2006 23:33 (nineteen years ago)

A friend of mine lost years worth of his poems in a computer crash. I thought this might be about him, even though he isn't anyone anyone has heard of.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 23:37 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, can't help much although there are poems called 'The Merman' by both Tennyson and Owen Barfield (the Tennyson doesn't contain the line you mention though, and I can't find the text to Barfield's online). There's also 'The Forsaken Merman' by Matthew Arnold but again the text doesn't seem to fit.

No idea about the first one - there's no obvious candidates that I can find. One of the classic 'funeral poems' does talk about forgetting though: 'Remember' by Christina Rossetti.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 27 April 2006 07:27 (nineteen years ago)

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