Distraction Begets Absence

COLLECTIBLES

        in no particular order:

words
interesting quotes
sea pebbles
potentially usable research
so-and-so's artwork
fountain pens
that type music
important family/friends' keepsakes
odd shaped bottles
books
driftwood
kind rejection slips
artful figurines
old untold stories
amusing images
particular past journal scribbles
impressionable whatevers

DISCARDABLES

(the pen pauses) -

poems that itemize,
like this one,
to fill the blank space,
to remind maybe there's still a There
there.

RESUSCITATIONALS

Find the There that's still there.



    

Lost in the chunkable time queue

Conversation Overheard between Two Friends, one of whom is

plugged in
tuned out.
        Wired.


Ring Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrring
buZZ buZZ  buZZZZZZZ   jingle-jingle      hummmmmmmmmmmmmm
oops, got a call.
W8--text, 2.
Hold on a min

The min takes 4 mins.

Click.  Ap off.
"So.  S'up?"

"Forgot, dude." 

End of Conversation.




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"On YouTube, 'you can get a whole story in six minutes, ....a book takes so long. I prefer the immediate gratification.'"  Growing Up Digital

Whistles from the Elsewhere

returning there it
takes you

in.

I should have been
writing

and yet ...

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Photo of train coming out of the fog in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, with the kind permission of D. L. Ennis over at  Visual Thoughts Photography, 2007, all rights reserved.