I had written this about a year ago...
It was based on a dream I'd just had, which always makes for the world's greatest poems, right?
Looking back, I think I still rather like it, so I felt brave enough to post it here.
I've given it a little bit of torquing.
See how it feels when you try it on:
2nd Qtr. Projections
I just watched the movie, and at the end, the film rolls backward
[[The good job in another city with the one I might marry]] comes first
[[The barbecues and parties with Kathy]]
[[She leaves him for me]]
[[We admit that we're unable to resist each other]]
[[I meet this beautiful bookworm]]
The projectionist's mistake shows
[[when I got bold, got a better job, and moved in by my lonesome]]
[[the time when I left the her before]]
[[Moving away from college, led by that girl]]
[[Joining the Fraternity]]
[[Thinking about leaving her for the girls at these parties]]
The next, but previous, scenes
[[when I met her]]
[[Toiling late into the night on some prop]]
[[My first conventions, traveling far away for insanity]]
[[Losing that girl, never getting the next one, finding another]]
Prior and upcoming
[[the stage, surrounded by those strangers I might one day love]]
[[Followed a girl far away from everything I've known]]
[[I left high school, lost my friends, and got a job]]
The Denouement
[[Driving around with my friends, realizing this might be the last time I see them all in the same place]]
[[LAN parties]]
[[pecking order]]
[[pretending to be the smartest kid in school so well, I believed it myself]]
[[Never sleeping, except in class]]
[[Strife]]
[[Birth]]
The loose end whips back through the machine, and applauds this version of my posterity, coiled on itself.
Into the can.
In years, it will be released for what comes after DVD.
Looking back, I think I still rather like it, so I felt brave enough to post it here.
I've given it a little bit of torquing.
See how it feels when you try it on:
2nd Qtr. Projections
I just watched the movie, and at the end, the film rolls backward
[[The good job in another city with the one I might marry]] comes first
[[The barbecues and parties with Kathy]]
[[She leaves him for me]]
[[We admit that we're unable to resist each other]]
[[I meet this beautiful bookworm]]
The projectionist's mistake shows
[[when I got bold, got a better job, and moved in by my lonesome]]
[[the time when I left the her before]]
[[Moving away from college, led by that girl]]
[[Joining the Fraternity]]
[[Thinking about leaving her for the girls at these parties]]
The next, but previous, scenes
[[when I met her]]
[[Toiling late into the night on some prop]]
[[My first conventions, traveling far away for insanity]]
[[Losing that girl, never getting the next one, finding another]]
Prior and upcoming
[[the stage, surrounded by those strangers I might one day love]]
[[Followed a girl far away from everything I've known]]
[[I left high school, lost my friends, and got a job]]
The Denouement
[[Driving around with my friends, realizing this might be the last time I see them all in the same place]]
[[LAN parties]]
[[pecking order]]
[[pretending to be the smartest kid in school so well, I believed it myself]]
[[Never sleeping, except in class]]
[[Strife]]
[[Birth]]
The loose end whips back through the machine, and applauds this version of my posterity, coiled on itself.
Into the can.
In years, it will be released for what comes after DVD.