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+title: Something
+id: poetry-time
+subtitle: about the nature of poetry and time
+genre: verse
+
+project:
+    title: Stark Raving
+    class: stark
+    order: 5
+    next:
+    - title: The Moon is drowning
+      link: moon-drowning
+    - title: AMBER alert
+      link: amber-alert
+    prev:
+    - title: The Big Dipper
+      link: big-dipper
+    - title: Worse looking over
+      link: worse-looking-over
+...
+
+I'm writing this now because I have to.  \
+Not in some "my soul yearns for this and \
+I can't help it" way, but in the way that this \
+moment is structured as such, that it is \
+crystallized this way, me writing this, and later \
+you reading it, now for you, later for me,
+
+and this tenuous connection mates me \
+and you forever, combined with each other, two \
+[electrons momentarily entwined][].  Later, \
+when I'm dead or far too famous for you, and \
+you're in school, reading my words because it is \
+required reading, I want you to remember this
+
+connection we've always had, this \
+[spider's thread][] hanging between you and me.  \
+Which of us is the spider and which is \
+the fly still remains to be seen.  To \
+eat, perchance to fly: all of that and \
+more.  We can settle all of this later.
+
+Yes, it is you I'm thinking of in your later \
+time: you specifically, not another.  This \
+is true for all $x$ such that $x > 0$ and \
+$x$ is a real person, though it doesn't bother me \
+to write to a fictional figure or to \
+[a figment][], maybe, of my imagination.  This is
+
+what you are right now, anyway, [dear Reader][], is \
+it not?  I'm talking about my now, of course, not later, \
+which is your now.  Later will be my now too, \
+and maybe I'm ultimately writing to a future part of this \
+self: you could very well be me.  \
+In fact, you probably are me, [some other version][], and
+
+I am you in the past, or what you could've been, and \
+at the same time, this isn't true.  Everything is, \
+and nothing isn't.  The difference between "you" and "me" \
+is in name only.  Maybe you'll get this later, \
+[when you're older][], when I'm older, when all of this \
+is something we'll look fondly back to,
+
+because I do hope to meet you, although much later, \
+and I hope your feeling is the same.  All this \
+talk on me and you and you and me we'll keep between us two.
+
+[electrons momentarily entwined]: treatise.html
+[spider's thread]: last-passenger.html
+[a figment]: epigraph.html
+[some other version]: elegyforanalternateself.html
+[when you're older]: found-typewriter-poem.html
+[dear Reader]: real-writer.html