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