On Sixty Minutes

On Sixty Minutes Sunday
is a story on ordinary people
with extra-photographic memory,
they can recall the details of any day
in any year they've lived - the good, the bad,
and all the in-betweens we remember
only as generalized repetitions -
they got theirs compartmentalized
and can pull out on demand in an instant,
their dreams don't merge with their memories
the way ours do. According to researchers
how most of us remember
is where adrenaline marked the spot -
your so-called passages of life,
the earthquakes, floods, 9/11.
And as to the rest of the details,
well, I think, sometimes,
they're just like the pins you dropped
into a shaggy carpet in a gobbler of a room
that you don't remember ever of having dropped -
except when your feet find them.