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