Among the items listed in her early poem "Failures in Infinitives" are the failures "to forget mother and father enough" and "to remember them some other way / to remember their bigotry accurately".
As a closer, Wilson also tries to forget failure — a blown save — almost as soon as it happens.
The first is memory failure - people tend to forget, and may also have false memories of events that never actually occurred.
Nevertheless, a failure is a failure and it is hard to forget.
As it is now open season on NHS failures, it is easy to forget that it is not just problems that should be driving change.
So we headed for Bear Island, a popular camping spot below Mather Gorge, and holed up there for the rest of the long weekend, swimming, fishing and trying to forget our failure.
With a new chancellor and a new climate of amity with City Hall, the city's schools deserve a chance to forget past failures and the problems of the future, and take advantage of the sense of promise of a new beginning.
They seem to drink to celebrate their many successes in life, rather than to forget their failures, and in that sense they actually have more in common with rappers than your streetwear hipsters who claim to be hustling every day.
I have been able quickly to forget my many failures and look ahead.
