Writing About Nothing

“I have nothing to say and I am saying it and that is poetry.” ~ John Cage I didn’t plan on making another attempt at writing tonight. It just sort of happened. Earlier this evening, I had sat for a quarter of an hour staring at the unchanging page with a customary mixture of panic, [...]

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Positive "Nots"

It’s been a long time, I know. In my early days of diary-writing, which I began at the age of 11, I had a (bad) habit of beginning every entry with a lament; first, about how much time had flown by since the last time I cracked the journal open; second, about the impossibility of [...]

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A Non-Introduction

OK. I’m just going to launch into this weblog gracelessly – like so – because unless I do, another seven months of virtual silence will pass by. (I created this account in the hopefulness of spring. It’s now fall. I’ve started “The Introduction” a few times and I’ve canned every one of them.) The only [...]

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