Trying to run dual independent displays on a Pi PICO

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I have the following
Pi Pico
Pico Breakout Garden Base:
1.3" SPI Color Square LCD (240x240) Breakout: Rear SPI slot
1.54" SPI Color Square LCD (240x240) Breakout: Front SPI slot

Each display is using a different chip select and backlight pin but they are mirroring each other. I “think” the issue is the display buffer line.
display_buffer = bytearray(width * height * 2) # 2-bytes per pixel (RGB565)
If I do this
display_buffer1 = bytearray(width * height * 2) # 2-bytes per pixel (RGB565)
display_buffer2 = bytearray(width * height * 2) # 2-bytes per pixel (RGB565)
I get MemoryError: memory allocation failed, allocating 115200 bytes for the second line.

import time
import machine
import gc

from breakout_colourlcd240x240 import BreakoutColourLCD240x240

width = BreakoutColourLCD240x240.WIDTH
height = BreakoutColourLCD240x240.HEIGHT

display_buffer = bytearray(width * height * 2)  # 2-bytes per pixel (RGB565)
display2 = BreakoutColourLCD240x240(display_buffer, cs=(22), bl=(21))
display2.set_backlight(0.8)
display1 = BreakoutColourLCD240x240(display_buffer, cs=(17), bl=(20))
display1.set_backlight(0.8)

while True:

    display1.set_pen(255, 255, 255)
    display1.text(rtc.string_date(), 40, 145, 240, 3)
    display1.text(rtc.string_time(), 60, 165, 240, 3)

    display1.update()
    display2.update()
    time.sleep(1)
    display1.set_pen(0, 0, 0)
    display1.clear()
    display2.set_pen(0, 0, 0)
    display2.clear()
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The solution I found is to
draw to display 1,
update it
clear it (this clears out the display buffer)
Now draw to display 2
update it
clear it (this empties out the display buffer)
wash rinse and repeat.

    # time to update the display
    display1.update()
    display1.set_pen(0, 0, 0)
    display1.clear()
    
   # drawing the date and time
   
    display2.set_pen(255, 255, 255)
    display2.text(rtc.string_date(), 40, 145, 240, 3)
    display2.text(rtc.string_time(), 60, 165, 240, 3)
    
    display2.update()
    display2.set_pen(0, 0, 0)
    display2.clear()

    time.sleep(1)