You really needn’t envy me
My photographic memory:
The photos in my little mind
Are not as sharp or well-defined
As digital photography –
I’m more the 19th century.
As I am sure you will have heard
Most early photos turned out blurred
And when you go back to the past
Those early inks weren’t colourfast;
An image might just fade away –
My memory’s a bit that way.
My snapshots are not neat and posed
And in some cases weren’t exposed
Quite long enough to good strong light
So now are dim instead of bright.
And there’s another category –
Those shots not in my memory:
Some things I’ve seen, some things have read
Should be by rights there in my head
But no! It seems that they are gone –
Perhaps I left the lens cap on.
