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2013, awkward, breathing, care, children, embarrassment, expression, feeling, hidden, letting go, name, poem, sitting, smell, staying, talking to myself, taste, words, writing
when writing
when writing a poem
write the words down that come
of themselves without stopping them
without editing them even if you don’t like them
and stay with them let them sit there in all their awkwardness
in all their unfitting-ness in all their un-cleverness and crassness embarrassing
to behold, let their uncomfortable – ness be, breathe their unfitting – ness, explore how they don’t fit, find how something is being hidden or explained away in their expression that makes them uncomfortable, probe it, become intimate with it, don’t turn away from it, smell its armpits, feel its hideous contours, run your tongue over its acrid bits and find the words which call them their own names, name them, and care for them like your own new born children
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breathing & talking to myself & writing wormhole: grrr
letting go wormhole: sit / and move
sitting wormhole: Chop Suey, 1929
words wormhole: open window
I had to chase this one around my computer screen…. things got woogey… took me down to the bottom of the page. You know…I’ve never been down there before! Hmmm…Upright now…great post! Simpatico…
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… the bottom of the page is ROOTS, man, solid stuff down there; however I designed the last line to extend way beyond the usual boundary – it was supposed to read extendingly right … I don’t think it worked but I’m still pleased you followed wherever it lead …
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Oh it worked all right…. I got lost (found?) returning from the trip. Good one!
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