Timekeeping

Em - yes, perfect sense [you can quote me on that :> ] Your assessment of those lines comes quite close to the intention behind them. Maybe the word you were looking for is 'whimsical'? With a sense of parody...anyway, the section 'in memory' through to 'dressed for the kill' is meant to have a clichéd feel, the idea being to suggest something that is not actually forgotton, merely dismissed, almost as if being laughed off. Also the first few lines are meant to be read as being 'comfortable', having a regular rhythm, which gains momentum in the 'skeleton' line (as if being nervously/self-consciously blurted out), with  (hopefully) a kind of pause for breath/composure at the period.
The 'in memory...long forgotton' lines are intended to suggest contradiction, echoed in 'dressed for the kill' (as opposed to 'dressed to kill').
The last few lines are meant to be the antithesis (in tone, and phrasing), of what went before - a kind of variation on the theme of 'reflection' that I've seen employed before in rictameters. 

Anyway, that was some of what I had in mind when writing, although it obviously didn't come across that way convincingly :> I guess it's a scenario similar to '7 Things About Me' - when writing something with personal relevance, there are things that inevitably remain in the cupboard - I hope I've managed to explain some of that here, though probably not to your satisfaction :>

And thank you Em - that spacing is better I think, and something I wouldn't have seriously looked at without prompting...