Day 355: Solid Black Lines

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the disadvantage of writing –
and writing quickly –
everyday,
is that you do not have time
to censor or edit.

but of course,
you could say
that the beauty of writing –
and writing quickly –
everyday,
is that you do not have time
to censor or edit.

you must include fact –
at least, fact that is truth to you –
and just enough fiction
to make your truth
worth reading.

it makes me think of fact
as the solid black lines
on a child’s coloring page
that give the shape of what is.

digestions of fact are the colors
you choose to fill those lines in with.

and of course, in a room full of children,
all equipped with the same,
solid black lines,
you would never get two identical pictures,
not even if they tried
to copy each other.

no one really knows all the truths you live with
and consume
but may come to an understanding
if in the end,
they look
at the picture you’ve made.

i am writing now
as one doodles on a scratch pad
while talking on the telephone.
i make boxes and circles
to delineate boundaries
and organize the traumas
of the past year
and try to make sense of the design
that’s left behind.

perhaps the act
of crossing my t’s
and dotting my i’s
will balance some
facetious scale
that once made level,
will straighten also,
the picture i’ve been coloring
for so very long.

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