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Sonnet on Forgetting

The screen is smashed, you dropped it in the street,
The mirror's broken, cracked from side to side,
A fragment's missing, story incomplete,
The inner working's got no place to hide.
Exposed to water damage, salty tears
Corrode the circuits, free the floating node,
A sub-atomic particle now fears
He's been observed, regrets the oats he sowed.

It can't be fixed, you send it to the shop,
They send it to the depot, who declare:
Unfit for purpose, only fit to drop;
It's built-in obsolescence, they don't care. 
Redundant to explore the where and when;
Forget it, get a new one, try again. 


© Sara Nicola Ruth 

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“The mirror’s broken, cracked from side to side” refers to this:

The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side (1962) by Agatha Christie. The story features amateur detective Miss Marple solving a mystery in St. Mary Mead.

…When Mrs Bantry recounts the events to Miss Marple, she uses lines from the poem “The Lady of Shalott” (in which a curse falls upon the poem’s heroine) to describe the look she observed on Marina’s face:

Out flew the web and floated wide—
The mirror crack'd from side to side;
"The curse is come upon me," cried
      The Lady of Shalott.

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