Decrepit Memoir: A Catalogue of Minutes is a sequence of sixty-one social-media status updates written during the period surrounding Pearl and Other Poems.
Each entry uses the platform status as a constrained poetic form. A timestamp, author label, current-mood formula, and “Like · Comment · Share” apparatus contain a brief surreal composition: robots, obsolete political figures, theological machinery, consumer goods, animals, illnesses, and literary names collide inside one-minute worlds.
The sequence does not merely preserve posts made elsewhere. Platform artifacts are part of its compositional condition. Repetition of the name and timestamp turns feed chronology into stanza structure; the engagement line becomes refrain; “current mood” becomes a generative operator rather than psychological report.
Recurring figures—the dark robot from Bethlehem, Dickinson’s dash, Blake, Marx, Voltaire, spaceships, senators, luxury goods, tiny animals—show an early vocabulary that later enters the Crimson Hexagonal Archive’s mature architecture. The posts already join poetry, machine identity, social infrastructure, and institutional parody.
The work is a memoir by minute rather than retrospective narrative. Its unit is the public status: a dated aperture in which a complete poetic event appears, closes, and is followed by another.