Cognitive Preserve

Knick-knacks, strewn items piled
In storage, garage sale mementos,
Potential donations to the local thrift
Store--an anthropological mess not
Taken to the landfill,

The recesses of a private eternity,
Dematerialized mental images until
The overtaxed mind is stressed to
The hilt; daydreams are disquieted by
Paranoiac guilt: somatically actualizing
Time-capsuled semantics.

Flush rush memory fatigue, the need
Of duress-free sleep, else collapse in
Front of a viewing screen and watch
The news, afterwards stream a trending
Dramatic series where the character's
Names, out of respect, have been
Changed.

Riveted, devastated, wondering--what
Will happen tomorrow, to the real names.