When my son was small, we watched a lot of Hollywood cartoons.
Dory the fish’s memory became an important leitmotif.
I can’t count how many times Dory
Forgot the path of the waters and swam
Without a fish identity card. Once, because of that,
She was almost swallowed by a shark. Disappointed houswifes watch a Mexican telenovela—
Mariana there is always struck by retrograde
Amnesia, she loses her daughter and it takes
Twenty years until one finds the other again. I like
To hide from the oven and the pile of dishes, but
Housework always finds me first. I want to
Forget the sad Mondays, the missing socks,
The eaten chocolate bars, I want to forget
That I was born in a day of Disaster Calendar,
That in half a year November will again
Fill my shoes with rain, I want to forget
How to iron laundry, how to be a Stepford wife
With small expectations and deep frying pans.
The little fish Dory regains her memory
And swims to pick up her child from kindergarten.
I do the dishes and iron the laundry.
Mariana lives long and happily, she does not get Alzheimer’s.