The Seductiveness of the Memory Hole
“He crumpled up the original message and any notes that he himself had made, and dropped them into the memory hole to be devoured by the flames.”
– George Orwell’s 1984.
We have an invention. We
invented it. What you do is,
you email us the thing
that you want to forget.
You list every detail. You
describe in full. When we
get the email, we delete it.
We don’t just delete the email.
We delete the thing. The thing
never happened. No one involved
will remember it; no one
who heard the story will
repeat it; even you yourself
will forget it.
We have done it already.
We are doing it right now.
(originally appeared in The Magazine of Speculative Poetry)
