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---
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
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