Well, it grounds that slowly dissipating I, Ken.
I wondered about the 2nd line, or would ‘so not’ be too strong an assertion?
I’d drop a duple os ‘is’s, in the Seinfield line & at the end, replace with there?
How well do such references carry forward in time I wonder…
Doug
On Jul 8, 2014, at 7:05 PM, Kenneth Wolman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Don't know what it's doing.
>
> GROUNDHOG
>
> I have nothing to say
> and that's not so okay
> because the mornings are really not fresh
> except for the ever-needy cat
> kneading and needing
> nothing like renewal happens here
> like him I scratch around furniture
> try to figure out what
> I'll do today will money hold up
> probably the same as yesterday
> nothing--my life is a Seinfeld Experience
> and my broken mainspring
> feels so self-renewing that
> I must study the calendar
> on my computer to figure out
> what day it is or put on TV news
> and know that if it's shown this
> is still a weekday so
> do I need to go to the market
> do I need to go anywhere
> does another day of ageing
> make it get any easier
> or is boredom simply inert
> a substanceless gas
> no easier no harder just is?
>
Douglas Barbour
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Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2 (UofAPress).
Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
Something else is out there
godamnit
And I want to hear it
C.D.Wright
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