Archival montage combines audio recordings of Joe Brainard reading from the poem, "I Remember," as well as an interview | dG1fWnRvZlMzZVl3bWs
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00:00I remember the pale green tint of Coca-Cola bottles. I remember not really trusting mince
00:13meat pie, what was in it, and dressing too. I remember the way cranberry sauce slides
00:19out of the can and then plops.
00:22When did I meet Joe? I met Joe in the first grade. We were both, I guess, six years old.
00:29In the same class at Whittier Elementary School in Tulsa.
00:34I remember the indescribable smell of a certain dime store downtown with wooden floors.
00:40And this would have been 1948, fall of 48.
00:42And my favorite 25-cent photo machine. My favorite because it got stuck once and continued
00:48taking pictures of me for what seemed like hours until a nearby clerk became suspicious
00:53and called the manager over to turn the thing off.
00:56And you know, I don't have very many memories of him from that time. My guess, the reason
01:02is because he was a very quiet kid and kind of shy.