16 April 2007

Stagnation

Every day I tell myself that I ought to write something—whether here or on a scrap of paper somewhere. Why can't I?

Perhaps I am gradually losing my ability to think and feel. I have become somehow stunted, emotionally and cognitively.

I need a clever method of personal renewal. I need an idea. I need something to do.

6 comments:

  1. Yay, you're alive!
    Maybe you should read some awesome books and then write some papers on them. Finishing papers always makes me feel really good.

    Emily

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  2. Take heart: I'm sure your page will soon be printed.


    THE THOUGHT-FOX

    I imagine this midnight moment’s forest:
    Something else is alive
    Beside the clock’s loneliness
    And this blank page where my fingers move.

    Through the window I see no star:
    Something more near
    Though deeper within darkness
    Is entering the loneliness:

    Cold, delicately as the dark snow,
    A fox’s nose touches twig, leaf;
    Two eyes serve a movement, that now
    And again now, and now, and now

    Sets neat prints into the snow
    Between trees, and warily a lame
    Shadow lags by stump and in hollow
    Of a body that is bold to come

    Across clearings, an eye,
    A widening deepening greenness,
    Brilliantly, concentratedly,
    Coming about its own business

    Till, with a sudden sharp hot stink of fox
    It enters the dark hole of the head.
    The window is starless still; the clock ticks,
    The page is printed.

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  3. You should have more casual sex via Craigslist.....

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  4. My suggestion: travel!

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