Just in case you think this stuff i write falls off a tree in my backyard and all I do is take a basket out and pick a good one up - hah! Double hah!
Let me tell you I wrote something for today and edited it five or six times; you know how it is when every so often something turns out the way you want it, well this was it.
Then I turned around and it was gone, way gone, not anywhere, absolute-away gone. I wasn’t drinking. I wasn’t stoned. Counter intelligence operatives didn’t sneak in to grab my poem and head for the other side. I dumped it somehow.
I thought to try my recovery software and couldn’t find my recovery software. I searched for another software and it said free, so I downloaded it and installed it; but when it found what could be my missing file – it wanted me to pay for it before I even looked at it. What kind of free is that?
It’s like when you buy a toy in the children’s department, and then you take it home you read the small print that says “Important. Keep this out of the hands of children!”
So today I give you this account, when what I really wrote for today ended in the he isotonic curve of the subtle sphere, where the closer you get to finding a thing, the harder it becomes to find.
2 comments:
Hi Jack,
I empathize. If you lose a file, or a scribbled line or two on a piece of paper, it's usually gone forever, and you can't quite get it back. Once a piece is missing, there's a rhythm and a sound you can't recreate, because it all locked into place, and now a key element is missing. It's frustrating, buried in your mind so deep you might be able to retrieve an approximation, but it's never the same. Still, I like the poem, four thirty-seven a.m., you did create, out of the remnants.
annie,
yesterday i had one of those rare days i did not post a poem because what i had planned i did not make note of; usually i use pen and ink for a note to myself.
yesterday i was thinking something out, as i was doing other things. The idea was better and more clear. i made no notes and then between other things i forgot what i was working on.
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