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Lethologica: inability to recall a word; a lapse of memory

Lethologica

As I lie hear in the dark things become more and more absurd
I am trying to remember this particular word
I struggle in my memory 
     and in my reverie
Why can’t I recall (it’s frustrating as hell), why do you perturb? 

So in its plenary
I struggle in my memory
What is this word
That before I have heard,
Why do you elude my extra-sensory?

It is much like a long-awaited friend
When I remember the word, and put to an end
This frantic revival
Of a word that does rival
The lapse and synapse in my head
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