in the bardo of forgetting | {•5 axioms•}

1 memory is time | रूप a moment ago, i sat down here; before that, i was making coffee; before that, i was washing my face; before that, i was stepping in the dim hallway then washing my face; before that, i was dreaming… 2 memory is emotion | वेदना i remember feeling sorry for dad who had left the precious bag of lanzones on the bus; on the way home from work, he had stopped at a fruit stall at the entrance of Fort Bonifacio before boarding the crowded bus, spending the few precious extra pesos he had to surprise us kids with the treat… 3 memory is motion | संज्ञा i distinctly remember the heft of the book as i balanced it on top of the A-frame announcement board on the sidewalk in front of Bernal Beast (a neighborhood pet shop in Bernal Heights) as i wanted to take a picture of the sky before the 24 Divisadero arrived… 4 memory is dream | संस्कार is reconstruction is hallucination is confabulation is delusion is maya; i don’t know where some of these dreams lately are coming from…