{"slug": "i-want-to-forget", "title": "I want to forget", "summary": "The poem expresses a desire to erase painful memories, particularly those associated with Gaza, in order to escape the burden of recollection. The speaker argues that remembering forces one to become a \"bureaucrat of memories,\" making life tedious, and wishes to forget everything so that a new beginning is possible. The poem is dated May 27, 2025.", "body_md": "I want to forget\nI want to forget Gaza.\nI want to forget the pain.\nI want to forget all dumb jokes, old song lyrics.\nI want to forget that most things ever happened,\nas remembering makes everything tedious.\nForces you to become a bureaucrat of your memories, to look everything up.\nAs if you don’t know.\nI want to forget it all\nSo the person of the next moment\ncan finally\nstart anew.\nWritten on May 27, 2025", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/i-want-to-forget", "canonical_source": "http://abuseofnotation.github.io/forget/", "published_at": "2025-05-27 00:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-22 11:42:13.576473+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": [], "entities": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/i-want-to-forget", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/i-want-to-forget.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/i-want-to-forget.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/i-want-to-forget.jsonld"}}