dust accumulates
quicker
than it should
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Notes:
1. Written on May 3rd, 2020
__________dust accumulates
quicker
than it should
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Notes:
1. Written on May 3rd, 2020
__________everything i cook tastes the same
sometimes i think i’ll cook something different
something nice
so i get a recipe book out
and choose something different
something nice
and start making it
of course
i don’t have this ingredient
or that ingredient
so i use the nearest thing i have
out of the ingredients i already have
or leave it out entirely
and hope it’s okay
still
at least i’ve cooked something different
something nice
which tastes exactly the same now
of course
as everything else i’ve ever cooked
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Notes:
1. Written on January 13th, 2020
__________I’m using the internet
because I can’t sleep
and I can’t sleep
because I’m using the internet
caught
in a refresh cycle
updating
every
page
in the hope that something has changed
but nothing has
and when something is looked at this closely
this constantly
the illusion is created
that nothing ever does
nor ever will
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Notes:
1. Written in early 2018
2. But could really have been written at any point
3. in the 21st century
1.
I like
the transformative properties
of snow
the way
it obliterates
the boundary lines
we’ve laid down
road and pavement
path to garden
field from wood
and the way
it allows me to imagine
(in the hour or two before it melts
beneath the afternoon sun)
a world more open
than our own
2.
All that is left now
is the absence of it
the outline
of where it once stood
the memory
of what it once was
the last few mounds of rubble
that no one’s found the time
to sweep away
3.
These waves have been crashing
on indistinguishable shores
for a billion years
and will
for four billion more
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Notes:
1. Written in early 2018 sometime
2. Or maybe late 2017
a field of bonfires
generating the screams
that will help see us through the winter
__________
Notes:
1. Written on November 3rd, 2019
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