Old ghosts
So, I found one of my old writing notebooks. I don't
remember writing half the stuff in there, and some of it
is damn strange. It's like reading someone else's work,
but I can't tell if it's any good or not. Asking me what it
means would also be futile, since I don't know myself.
Maybe I did when I wrote it, but not anymore. I'm four years
and two thousand mile removed from it.
I left the line breaks in there from when I wrote it,
but the paragraph breaks are new.
11/7/98
Isaac Newton was a cad
said Wrong Way Callahan.
"Objects in motion stay in motion
What goes up must go down
Does he take us for fools?
See this rock, it doesn't stay
in motion, it his the ground
and stops
And air is up and doesn't
go down. Can you explain
that by Newton?"
Objects in the rearview mirror
may be closer than they appear.
And buckets of bolts do not a
hamster cage make.
If the underside of a
car had wooden lubes, it would
be all the rage.
Cast away ye hopes
and dreams. Cast away ye.
For the straightest line through
the center does not hold. The
center does not hold.
Ketchup and fairy tales. Blue
goblins and whales. The first
duty is to thy quest to save
the holy grail.
One fish, two fish, all in a row.
Making crab cakes, painting door
nails.
Blonde hairs gray and black hairs
bleach, and no hair makes Jack
a dull boy.
Think!
Just sit a moment. Take the time
to contemplate, and then renew.
Pick up, pick down, all in a zoo.
Catch me if you can. The whooperwill
played with the cat in the hat, and the
Texan came in from the cold.
Fozzy bear is a fuzzy bear, wuz he?
And Kermit takes smack.
Miss Piggy needs braces, but Gonzo
writes poetry by the dashboard light.
Together.
The hat and the spoon drink chocolate
by the bay. The dog digs ditches by
the seashore with Sally selling seashells.
Madeline meets the corporal
and they go out to a bar.
The corporal asks "How do you do?"
And Madeline dances
while the corporal snores
and the party goes ever on.
remember writing half the stuff in there, and some of it
is damn strange. It's like reading someone else's work,
but I can't tell if it's any good or not. Asking me what it
means would also be futile, since I don't know myself.
Maybe I did when I wrote it, but not anymore. I'm four years
and two thousand mile removed from it.
I left the line breaks in there from when I wrote it,
but the paragraph breaks are new.
11/7/98
Isaac Newton was a cad
said Wrong Way Callahan.
"Objects in motion stay in motion
What goes up must go down
Does he take us for fools?
See this rock, it doesn't stay
in motion, it his the ground
and stops
And air is up and doesn't
go down. Can you explain
that by Newton?"
Objects in the rearview mirror
may be closer than they appear.
And buckets of bolts do not a
hamster cage make.
If the underside of a
car had wooden lubes, it would
be all the rage.
Cast away ye hopes
and dreams. Cast away ye.
For the straightest line through
the center does not hold. The
center does not hold.
Ketchup and fairy tales. Blue
goblins and whales. The first
duty is to thy quest to save
the holy grail.
One fish, two fish, all in a row.
Making crab cakes, painting door
nails.
Blonde hairs gray and black hairs
bleach, and no hair makes Jack
a dull boy.
Think!
Just sit a moment. Take the time
to contemplate, and then renew.
Pick up, pick down, all in a zoo.
Catch me if you can. The whooperwill
played with the cat in the hat, and the
Texan came in from the cold.
Fozzy bear is a fuzzy bear, wuz he?
And Kermit takes smack.
Miss Piggy needs braces, but Gonzo
writes poetry by the dashboard light.
Together.
The hat and the spoon drink chocolate
by the bay. The dog digs ditches by
the seashore with Sally selling seashells.
Madeline meets the corporal
and they go out to a bar.
The corporal asks "How do you do?"
And Madeline dances
while the corporal snores
and the party goes ever on.