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Grex Writing Item 38: 1991
Entered by remmers on Mon Jun 1 04:31:46 UTC 1992:

    1991
    a curious year
    palindromic

    a numerological coincidence
    not intrinsic
    analysts say

    yet coincidences
    are the spikey protuberances
    in the fabric of reality

    that prod our minds
    to view reality
    in new ways

    in the usual way
    at the time i traversed it
    1991

    back to winter again
    winter to spring to summer to fall
    january to december

    if we run time backward, an invariant
    which is the same reversed
    in sum, winter to winter

    for our new design
    familiar backdrop
    old background

    snowflakes floating to heaven
    the summoned foliage hearkens
    while i stare in the mirror

    revealing the red-brown leaves beneath
    and gathering courage rises
    bits of whisker rise to my razor

    the overreaching branches beckon them
    to suckle as piglets at their mother
    and i paste my beard on, patch by patch
    
    back comes innocence, with it ignorance
    get it right this time?
    i'd run all my years in reverse

    oh shit
    no, it wouldn't work
    back to a point before regret

    just a crap shoot all over again
    the memories evaporate one by one
    throw the lever

    1991
    1991
    which one was forward?

    no way to tell
    take the long view
    a year is a point anyway

    with points it is meaningless
    to talk about
    the front end

1 responses total.

#1 of 1 by remmers on Tue Jun 2 06:47:13 1992:

Here it is the way I originally had it, divided into sections:


                 i
 
     1991
     a curious year
     palindromic
 
     a numerological coincidence
     not intrinsic
     analysts say
 
     yet coincidences
     are the spikey protuberances
     in the fabric of reality
 
     that prod our minds
     to view reality
     in new ways

                 ii
 
     in the usual way
     at the time i traversed it
     1991
 
     back to winter again
     winter to spring to summer to fall
     january to december
 
     if we run time backward, an invariant
     which is the same reversed
     in sum, winter to winter
 
     for our new design
     familiar backdrop
     old background
 
                 iii

     snowflakes floating to heaven
     the summoned foliage hearkens
     while i stare in the mirror
 
     revealing the red-brown leaves beneath
     and gathering courage rises
     bits of whisker rise to my razor
 
     the overreaching branches beckon them
     to suckle as piglets at their mother
     and i paste my beard on, patch by patch

                 iv
     
     back comes innocence, with it ignorance
     get it right this time?
     i'd run all my years in reverse
 
     oh shit
     no, it wouldn't work
     back to a point before regret
 
     just a crap shoot all over again
     the memories evaporate one by one
     throw the lever

                 v
 
     1991
     1991
     which one was forward?
 
     no way to tell
     take the long view
     a year is a point anyway
 
     with points it is meaningless
     to talk about
     the front end

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