Cultural tape recorder
mixed amid the clutter
cables, fittings, amps
fast food wrappers and caked mud
from a date in Gainesville
dusty notebooks, ink in shaky hand
marking events for no one to read
vaults impenetrable
contents tease through polycarbonate
fishbowl museums populate
shelves in no order, chaotic symmetry
these parchments make a puzzle
for chronologically challenged minds
events recorded, their nuance lost