Sunday, July 07, 2024

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Words in Such a Way

If half the book I write into
the ether thinks it is a book
then it is a book. This taking
the if I say I’m a poet then I

am a poet
notion one step fur
ther. But is it just a notion? 
These things are lives unto 
themselves and those, if there

be any, who choose to read
them. I don’t. Not in the
ether. These I just breathe
in like the air that generally

or most times does not suffo
cate. The potions of airy air
that I send out into the world
are meant as a laughing gas,

not carbon monoxide. Most
often. Usually? No, not I.

out the train window before cole valley