Two Dementia Patients Share the Memory of Water

Two glasses of water wait to be touched by hands and lips. The water itself remembers the taste of Fixodent, the salty funk of being swallowed into a body so blind to itself that thoughts have dimmed to patches of slowly shuttering lights. It is then that the water is their memory it is then that the water can drink them. The water also drinks parents, grandparents, multiple layers of children, but only in parts, only in shallows and shadows. Two Alzheimer patients look upon each other. both reach for a glass of water at once. Now the water can fill-in, recall and paint mind pictures. They begin to talk about people that they both remember as if the past was always just one shared glass of water.