Give it up for short-term memory

Give it up for short-term memory

Sometimes I wonder about the kind of people who talk just to talk, who speak just to hear their own voices.  Sometimes I think about changing the world, about saving my words for when they can make the most impact, about misusing commas and colons and conjunctions.  Sometimes I want to fade away like Alaska or JD Salinger or a one-hit wonder, unnoticed but never forgotten, eventually left to rest, undisturbed but still never forgotten.