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+---
+title: Something
+subtitle: about the nature of poetry and time
+genre: verse
+id: poetry-time
+toc: "Something about the nature of poetry and time"
+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

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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