Struct Destruct
(Feb 27/06)
Today being the first day of my forty-ninth year, amadeus anon et al. A bitterly cold late February morning, so it is--a simple repetition of the day of my birth. The depression settles in, a weighstation for emotions and trapped feelings. It is here, balanced nimbly on the fulcrum of Sartrean no-mans’-land, that the real work begins. The parsing and trimming, the cutting away and excising of wasteful no-nothings. Separating the wean from the chaff, the bone from the socket. Tendons and sinew, ligatures bared in a rapt denudation for all to see and regale in, the endnote to the preface of the middle; no-nothing in between, just dross, bad manners and chalk-gray cartilage.
Today being the first day of my forty-ninth year, amadeus anon et al. A bitterly cold late February morning, so it is--a simple repetition of the day of my birth. The depression settles in, a weighstation for emotions and trapped feelings. It is here, balanced nimbly on the fulcrum of Sartrean no-mans’-land, that the real work begins. The parsing and trimming, the cutting away and excising of wasteful no-nothings. Separating the wean from the chaff, the bone from the socket. Tendons and sinew, ligatures bared in a rapt denudation for all to see and regale in, the endnote to the preface of the middle; no-nothing in between, just dross, bad manners and chalk-gray cartilage.
Here is an in-exhaustive list of people whose birthday’s coincide with mine--Irwin Shaw 1913, Peter De Vries 1910, John Steinbeck 1902, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807, Ariel Sharon 1928, Ralph Nader 1934. And the contrary polar opposite, or, persons of interest who expired on this day--Konrad Lorenz 1989, Harold Acton 1994, Spike Milligan 2002, and Fred Rogers 2003. Thank you for your time, patience and good manners. (aND THE iTALIC-ES)
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