Yeah, I did that, too, but still forget to carry that notebook, Ken. When I do keep an idea repeating in my head it still has changed (usually for the worse, by the time I get to that piece of paper....
Doug
On Apr 11, 2014, at 2:45 AM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Gosh I identify with this thanks Ken- I particularly get frustrated by not
> being able to remember my dreams -or sometimes getting just a fragment-and I
> cannot remember much of books read last week -but that has an upside I do no
> longer feel obliged to read worthy bokks and am heavily into Nordic noir :-)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Kenneth Wolman
> Sent: 10 April 2014 21:28
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> Subject: Snap delayed, snap denied?
>
> THE NOTEBOOK
>
> I need to begin carrying a notebook again.
> Any notebook will do. A book to write notes in.
> Today I thought of a super poem.
> By the time I got home I forgot it.
> The predations of advancing age perhaps.
> Or lines that are end-stopped like this one.
> I am tired of forgetting things today.
> I am tired of having to confess my public sin.
> I am tired of not knowing my own mind.
> I am tired of knowing your own mind.
> I am tired of dreaming dreams I forget.
> I forget them as soon as I awaken.
> My dreams are not refreshing.
> They are mental jottings I do not make.
> Maybe if I have a cheap-assed notebook.
> Maybe I can stop in the street or wherever.
> Maybe I can write down the thought.
> First thought, best though?
> The thought that can be revised,
> turned to something that does not stop itself.
>
Douglas Barbour
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