Nov 12, 2004

The pic below is the title page of my electronic Notches. It was created with Deluxe Paint, a fairly simple (by today's standards) paint program. Now I use Paint Shop Pro (5) for most of my work. I use the mouse to draw.

And what do I draw? What do I write? I have yet to find out what all I draw. What all I write.

So...I write as I write below - then, in Notches - it might be placed in a comic balloon and be words spoken by a homesick crocodile. Or used as a "cheer" by a Southwest Texas high school cheerleading team. And, in truth, have nothing to do with either at all.

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Why do you take it
into the night,
this shattered axis
of your unredemptive heart?

I wonder.
And, not knowing,
I tip-toe forward,
casting sullen glances
at my past.

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rivy