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2title: Something
3subtitle: about the nature of poetry and time
4genre: verse
5
6id: poetry-time
7toc: "Something about the nature of poetry and time"
8
9project:
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