It is the dawning of the age of the introverts...

[Emily Bronte]

Wasting Time

You reach for the perfect words,
universally meaningful, and come up short.
People don't have a clue.
Just you wait. What if every actor, writer, composer,
and director said "fuck it, I give up, everyone
says its a waste of time!" You can sit back and smirk
when the complaints start. "No new books? movies?
tv shows? songs? Nothing for you to fill the empty
hours with? Not such a waste of time after all,
is it?" These stories are how we all make sense
of the world, and I won't apologise for that any more.

[Emily Bronte]

Donna, Dunc, Larry, thanks so much. The visits really keep me going. Two days to go!

[new leaf]

Well done, Mari, you've stuck it out by going not over, under, or around, but straight through the situation. Like Brian's diaries, it should be interesting for you to have a record of your thoughts in retrospect.

[Scrow]

Hi,
Good to catch up with your thread again, and so near the end, too! I love ‘Polishing’ - it’s a strong point, well-made. Online Shopping too - excellent. And wow to the earrings, what a lovely embodied private joke for the careful narrator to wear. The end also packs a secret, subtle, punch. Bookclub reads honest and sad, ‘The New Language’ is cleverness veiled in simplicity, seemingly effortless (things that are seemingly effortless take a lot of work and technique).
I love the end of ‘Wasting time’, too. Looking forward to finding out which poems you choose for the finishing line!

Sarah

[Emily Bronte]

Awwww Malinda and Sarah, thank you

Going to try and get around to a few threads tonight.

[Emily Bronte]

Worm Hole

There is a crater at the heart of the world
as we know it. I stand at its edge, watching.
Perhaps it will not close, but expand.
Anyone who enters it will be remade, atom
by atom, and when it spits you out
you will never find your way back.

[Emily Bronte]

Connection Is

FaceTime with mum though
we both hate video chats.
Zoom church and laughing
at the comment thread imagining
the voices and expressions.
My brother's partner gardening with him
or buying toilet paper when he finds it.
A friend who drops off books
to keep me occupied. And when
I am allowed visitors again
sitting with her, talking
or being silent as we like.

[alondra]

Hi Emily

Fun to speculate on, but I do hope you´re not standing at the edge of one (black holes may have the same effect.) Perhaps being "spit out" and remade would be the equivalent of Alice falling down the rabbit hole. Hard to find your way back from another dimension.

Best, Lark

[drumpf]

The Kick Inside - The dog strangler has got ta go. How dare kate bush not be related to george bush and declare war on this man. This man! Wuther him away.

Travel Ban - Fuck, I miss the mountains and trees

Online Shopping - the casual diction lends itself to a down-to-earth toliet abundance world that I immerse my self in without an toliet breaks in between. You be unrolling the truth. This pandemic makes me shop like a lobster!

Bookclub in the itme of COVID - covid is comin' to get ya! That image of the hand on the window pane foretells the night ahead for the N. It's tough. Books can only book so much.

Connection is - Ok. I feel the warmth. This actually made me feel sad. Holy shit, where's the toilet paper. [No seriously, I loved this last piece] Congraulations on finishing the marathon.

[BrianIsSmilingAtYou]

Mari,

Wasting Time - no apology necessary

Worm Hole - love the first line

Connection Is - yes, the many ways we connect in this time, sometimes through a wall of text, like this

You made it!

BrianIs AtYou