“They say everything can be replaced, Yet every distance is not near”
”I shall be released” Bob Dylan
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this fragrant lyric, burro-stubborn, hot burr burrows, into an old man’s deteriorating brain, one who spends nowadays, mending, stretching short hours to feel lengthy, by reviewing the distances he has travelled, means/meanings to/for unalterable endings
when time hurries to shrink distances tween them points, of incidents logged, forking roads, always wrongly chosen, safety over bravery, easy pain over hard love, miscalculating time and memory, prioritizing avoidance of the unknowns ******* up the risk of the best laid guesses, those things that come to be the chiefest fete of contradictory ironies, the travelogue nearly done, what never happened cannot be replaced.
he sings dirges for the remains of the day and other things vaguely recalled.
2/2/2022 ~ 7/17/2022
one of the many orphaned waifs living in my half started, half finished files.