one more memory

one more memory
I have just written a word
I am older by a word
by two
by three
by a poem
older - what does it mean older
within the abstraction called history
I have been assigned a narrow segment
from here - to there
I'm growing
within the abstraction called economy I was
ordered to live
within the abstraction called time -
I'm drifting
straying
and drifting
at the Egyptian wing
of the Metropolitan Museum
stone smiles with woman's lips