The Library of Lost and Found

by Phaedra Patrick

“I’ve got a bad dose of old age, that’s all. It’s bloody awful. No cure.”

Elderly people don’t just want to look at photos of the past, or of a nice bloody view. I want to see bright lights, and hear music, and see young people having fun. I want to remember doing it myself.”

see my chair, or a woman who looks like a bloody walnut. In my head, I’m still a young woman. My body just lets things down.”