THIS IS BAD STUFF -- I'M LOSING MY BRAIN!!!!

 I don't know where to put this. 

My brain isn't working!

My memory is shot!

I probably should start a new blog: Joan's Bad Stuff.  But that's too complicated now so I'll just put this here.  

I've missed important things like Prolia shots (for osteoporosis) that have left me with multiple vertebral fractures, deformity and pain!   

And most recently I forgot to keep a lovely luncheon date with my women law school classmates on September 5, 2023.  We still do this half a century after our school years together!  

It was clearly on my calendar but I totally forgot, and I wasn't there when one of my classmates so kindly came to pick me up!  I think I was just out taking a walk!  Or I don't even know what I was doing!

Elizabeth Bishop's poem One Art begins with the words  "The Art of Losing Isn't Hard to Master."    Here it appears she is speaking of the loss of a loved one, of a relationship. 

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47536/one-art

But I am losing myself!   

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I DON'T KNOW NOTHIN' SINCE MY BRAIN WORE OUT

 I Don’t Know Nothing, 'Cause my Brain Wore Out!  

Tune: Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out!

Parody Lyrics © 2023 Joan Levin

Once I lived the life of a college grad, 

Had lots of friends and I was always glad!

Went to plays and movies, read lots of books, 

Dined at fine restaurants with very good cooks!

Then my brain forgot how to store,

At first it was just numbers, but then it was more!

Birthdays, anniversaries, name and places, 

Like a deck of cards, without any aces!   

(Chorus) 

I don’t know nothin’, 'cause my brain wore out! 

Under my hat, there’s just grey hair!

Aside from that, there’s not much there!

If we ever meet on the street again,

I hope that I would greet you like a long lost friend, 

But now I fear I’d just stare in doubt, 

You see - I don’t know nothing, 'cause my brain wore out!

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This is based on:

Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out

Song by Eric Clapton

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Lyrics

Once I lived the life of a millionaire
Spent all my money, I just did not care
Took all my friends out for a good time
Bought bootleg liquor, champagne and wine

Then I began to fall so low
Lost all my good friends, I did not have nowhere to go
I get my hands on a dollar again
I'm gonna hang on to it till that eagle grins

'Cause no, no, nobody knows you
When you're down and out
In your pocket, not one penny
And as for friends, you don't have any

When you finally get back up on your feet again
Everybody wants to be your old long-lost friend
Said it's mighty strange, without a doubt
Nobody knows you when you're down and out

When you finally get back upon your feet again
Everybody wants to be your good old long-lost friend
Said it's mighty strange
Nobody knows you
Nobody knows you
Nobody knows you when you're down and out

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Jimmy Cox

Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

THE ART OF LOSING BY ELIZABETH BISHOP

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47536/one-art

One Art  BY ELIZABETH BISHOP

The art of losing isn’t hard to master;

so many things seem filled with the intent

to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster

of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.

The art of losing isn’t hard to master.

Then practice losing farther, losing faster:

places, and names, and where it was you meant

to travel. None of these will bring disaster.

I lost my mother’s watch. And look! my last, or

next-to-last, of three loved houses went.

The art of losing isn’t hard to master.

I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,

some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.

I miss them, but it wasn’t a disaster.

—Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture

I love) I shan’t have lied. It’s evident

the art of losing’s not too hard to master

though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.

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