#needing - Hello Poetry

FPOTD: 10/23/25 7:05am Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again. —André Gide <><><> Preface ---- stumble in the old-man-manner, a long sleep full of unremembered dreams, my watch happily informs nmI is, was, am. 'fully rested' after a wonderful evening of Mediterranean delicacies, and Dance, French ballet dancers exquisite, who mold their bodies in homage to gravitation, but more on that in a later "episode' let's us re~rebellion re-begin: ~~~~~ Po<>em stumble in the old-man-manner, grab my tablet and helloooooo,oooo, am greeted by the above, Les Mots d'André Gide(1) before eye opened, before my elixir of Caribbean mixture, this hard slap of wr but dryly, words, naively knocks me, totters me, and before I read on further, the composition stretches my mind, to confess, to admit, to knowing that you and I have long silently all (along) have known this, "Everything that needs to be said has already been said." and yet we write; we, by the mega~thousands come to homage ourselves, using words, presumably sequentially never prior ever~uttered, and a grizzled unshaven face, his father~confessor, his bathroom mirror, e-mocks me-with kindly grace, that we should (n)ever have had that peculiar thought, n(ever ever) pass through our brains... and the courage to cease, thus to please, is right here - right now, beggar my thoughts to go elsewhere, in embarrassed silent priv-a-see, and you can say, Amen and ponder it yourself and power on through it in wheee, (3) shame and glee, and write on, unjustifiably, but on (and on), moreover-endlessly, trying for our own originality, somehow despite, even Andre yup, him too, this verily same thought was written thousands years before by the Psalmist, The Preacher, the King Solomon, and taught to me as a young boy, in that poet's native tongue, Hebrew, "there is nothing new under the sun"^ <nml>

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Oct 26, 2025

Oct 26, 2025 at 11:07 AM UTC

nat-lipstadt

"Everything that needs to be said has already been said..."

FPOTD: 10/23/25 7:05am Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again. —André Gide <><><> Preface ---- stumble in the old-man-manner, a long sleep full of unremembered dreams, my watch happily informs nmI is, was, am. 'fully rested' after a wonderful evening of Mediterranean delicacies, and Dance, French ballet dancers exquisite, who mold their bodies in homage to gravitation, but more on that in a later "episode' let's us re~rebellion re-begin: ~~~~~ Po<>em stumble in the old-man-manner, grab my tablet and helloooooo,oooo, am greeted by the above, Les Mots d'André Gide(1) before eye opened, before my elixir of Caribbean mixture, this hard slap of wr but dryly, words, naively knocks me, totters me, and before I read on further, the composition stretches my mind, to confess, to admit, to knowing that you and I have long silently all (along) have known this, "Everything that needs to be said has already been said." and yet we write; we, by the mega~thousands come to homage ourselves, using words, presumably sequentially never prior ever~uttered, and a grizzled unshaven face, his father~confessor, his bathroom mirror, e-mocks me-with kindly grace, that we should (n)ever have had that peculiar thought, n(ever ever) pass through our brains... and the courage to cease, thus to please, is right here - right now, beggar my thoughts to go elsewhere, in embarrassed silent priv-a-see, and you can say, Amen and ponder it yourself and power on through it in wheee, (3) shame and glee, and write on, unjustifiably, but on (and on), moreover-endlessly, trying for our own originality, somehow despite, even Andre yup, him too, this verily same thought was written thousands years before by the Psalmist, The Preacher, the King Solomon, and taught to me as a young boy, in that poet's native tongue, Hebrew, "there is nothing new under the sun"^ <nml>