Wo es war... ________________
Eyeing one sticky handprint;
left behind--
another's form, whisked away before
I got there, just in time
with an issue
"Field" Nobember of 2012,
even though they don't print them in that month.
I had empty paper, a notebook. A story
at a ***** table.
I would write on top of all this,
thoughts of avoiding the mess
left, there, unwanted by others.
I have been wrong
in as many ways as I have been right
I have been wrong.
It's true, what Freud said:
Wo ES war! [Where IT was!]
Wo war es? [Where was it?]
Wo ich jetzt bin! [Where I now am!]
ES IST ICH [IT IS ME]
ICH BIN ES [I AM IT]
I am here.
IT
is Omaha,
and
in so many ways,
it wasn't. ______________________
Jan 18, 2013
Jan 18, 2013 at 5:09 PM UTC
Wo es war... ________________
Eyeing one sticky handprint;
left behind--
another's form, whisked away before
I got there, just in time
with an issue
"Field" Nobember of 2012,
even though they don't print them in that month.
I had empty paper, a notebook. A story
at a ***** table.
I would write on top of all this,
thoughts of avoiding the mess
left, there, unwanted by others.
I have been wrong
in as many ways as I have been right
I have been wrong.
It's true, what Freud said:
Wo ES war! [Where IT was!]
Wo war es? [Where was it?]
Wo ich jetzt bin! [Where I now am!]
ES IST ICH [IT IS ME]
ICH BIN ES [I AM IT]
I am here.
IT
is Omaha,
and
in so many ways,
it wasn't. ______________________
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T33oGr4rlx0&feature;=youtu.be
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Instance_of_the_Letter_in_the_Unconscious,_or_Reason_Since_Freud#.22Wo_Es_war.2C_soll_Ich_werden.22
MMXIII
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