Saturday, June 22, 2024

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Let me think about it.
                  —Ida Corr

I just need to get
myself level-headed,
yeah, that’s what I


Give me a second, I
don’t say out loud be
cause there isn’t any
one here. The phone

rings. Is there a tele
phone? Are there rings?
Where can I find a dial
tone? Ancient questions
which make me ancient.

And if I were level-headed
in the first place, would I
find myself in such need?
Of a second? Of a dial
tone? Of a ring? Oh, see,
now I remember. We gave

up on level-headed years
ago. In ancient times.

Do I pick it up to answer?

For a minute there I thought I—

at my desk at MIT