A list of ways to ensure that those words you heard will never leave you:

• etch them onto the back of a hairpin 
• wash them into your hands, into the atlas of your lifelines 
• brush or braid them into your hair
• inject them intravenously 
• inhale them through a rolled up bank note, shattering shards in your brain
• let them find your in your nightmares
• find them in your dreams
• bury them in the park 
• dry them out, embalm them, preserve them 
• teach them in a primary school class
• sing them in a lullaby 
• tell them to the ocean
• allow them to eat you from the inside out
• allow yourself to love them inside out