If there were a way to trap a thought in prose the moment one thought it, we'd all be litterateurs extraordinaire. The day passes like a stack of post-it notes, thoughts self etching on to them, scratched out, rubbed, rewritten and overwritten with copious doses of doodles so dense they sometimes scribble their naughtiness all over a perfect nugget of thought. Like the big brother who'll deck your house of cards and shrug as an explanation. Just.
And then, when you've done your coughing brushing peeing pooping scratching talking grocerying fonfielding eating workingforaliving'ing farting grumbling mumbling rummagingthroughthefridge'ing sandwiching-or-salading, working-some-mor'ing, peeing, pooping, grumbling, dreaming, hoping, moping sweating-back-home'ing surviving-the-traffic(k)ing planning-the-dinner'ing cooking eating talking burping yawning getting-the-clothes-out-for-tomorrow'ing peeing-one-last-time'ing spreading-the-sheet'ing and, finally, with a great big breath, lying down, when you're at last able to take stock of your day, them post it notes are all sweated over and blown over and rumpled and crumpled or one big fat masticated mess.
Na ha. So how to trap a post-it of a thought and stick it up nicely to cogitate on later? Can't think about it now. It's time for fridge-rummaging and dinner-cooking.
And then, when you've done your coughing brushing peeing pooping scratching talking grocerying fonfielding eating workingforaliving'ing farting grumbling mumbling rummagingthroughthefridge'ing sandwiching-or-salading, working-some-mor'ing, peeing, pooping, grumbling, dreaming, hoping, moping sweating-back-home'ing surviving-the-traffic(k)ing planning-the-dinner'ing cooking eating talking burping yawning getting-the-clothes-out-for-tomorrow'ing peeing-one-last-time'ing spreading-the-sheet'ing and, finally, with a great big breath, lying down, when you're at last able to take stock of your day, them post it notes are all sweated over and blown over and rumpled and crumpled or one big fat masticated mess.
Na ha. So how to trap a post-it of a thought and stick it up nicely to cogitate on later? Can't think about it now. It's time for fridge-rummaging and dinner-cooking.
No comments:
Post a Comment