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| 1 | --- | ||
| 2 | title: Something | ||
| 3 | subtitle: about the nature of poetry and time | ||
| 4 | genre: verse | ||
| 5 | |||
| 6 | id: poetry-time | ||
| 7 | toc: "Something about the nature of poetry and time" | ||
| 8 | |||
| 9 | project: | ||
| 10 | title: Stark Raving | ||
| 11 | class: stark | ||
| 12 | order: 5 | ||
| 13 | next: | ||
| 14 | - title: The Moon is drowning | ||
| 15 | link: moon-drowning | ||
| 16 | - title: AMBER alert | ||
| 17 | link: amber-alert | ||
| 18 | prev: | ||
| 19 | - title: The Big Dipper | ||
| 20 | link: big-dipper | ||
| 21 | - title: Worse looking over | ||
| 22 | link: worse-looking-over | ||
| 23 | ... | ||
| 24 | |||
| 25 | | I'm writing this now because I have to. | ||
| 26 | | Not in some "my soul yearns for this and | ||
| 27 | | I can't help it" way, but in the way that this | ||
| 28 | | moment is structured as such, that it is | ||
| 29 | | crystallized this way, me writing this, and later | ||
| 30 | | you reading it, now for you, later for me, | ||
| 31 | |||
| 32 | | and this tenuous connection mates me | ||
| 33 | | and you forever, combined with each other, two | ||
| 34 | | [electrons momentarily entwined][]. Later, | ||
| 35 | | when I'm dead or far too famous for you, and | ||
| 36 | | you're in school, reading my words because it is | ||
| 37 | | required reading, I want you to remember this | ||
| 38 | |||
| 39 | | connection we've always had, this | ||
| 40 | | [spider's thread][] hanging between you and me. | ||
| 41 | | Which of us is the spider and which is | ||
| 42 | | the fly still remains to be seen. To | ||
| 43 | | eat, perchance to fly: all of that and | ||
| 44 | | more. We can settle all of this later. | ||
| 45 | |||
| 46 | | Yes, it is you I'm thinking of in your later | ||
| 47 | | time: you specifically, not another. This | ||
| 48 | | is true for all $x$ such that $x > 0$ and | ||
| 49 | | $x$ is a real person, though it doesn't bother me | ||
| 50 | | to write to a fictional figure or to | ||
| 51 | | [a figment][], maybe, of my imagination. This is | ||
| 52 | |||
| 53 | | what you are right now, anyway, [dear Reader][], is | ||
| 54 | | it not? I'm talking about my now, of course, not later, | ||
| 55 | | which is your now. Later will be my now too, | ||
| 56 | | and maybe I'm ultimately writing to a future part of this | ||
| 57 | | self: you could very well be me. | ||
| 58 | | In fact, you probably are me, [some other version][], and | ||
| 59 | |||
| 60 | | I am you in the past, or what you could've been, and | ||
| 61 | | at the same time, this isn't true. Everything is, | ||
| 62 | | and nothing isn't. The difference between "you" and "me" | ||
| 63 | | is in name only. Maybe you'll get this later, | ||
| 64 | | [when you're older][], when I'm older, when all of this | ||
| 65 | | is something we'll look fondly back to, | ||
| 66 | |||
| 67 | | because I do hope to meet you, although much later, | ||
| 68 | | and I hope your feeling is the same. All this | ||
| 69 | | talk on me and you and you and me we'll keep between us two. | ||
| 70 | |||
| 71 | [electrons momentarily entwined]: treatise.html | ||
| 72 | [spider's thread]: last-passenger.html | ||
| 73 | [a figment]: epigraph.html | ||
| 74 | [some other version]: elegyforanalternateself.html | ||
| 75 | [when you're older]: found-typewriter-poem.html | ||
| 76 | [dear Reader]: real-writer.html | ||