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April 7: Yesterday, I was unable to post my blog entry because of squirrels. They had gnawed partly through my phone line a while ago. I'd patched the exposed wiring and it worked for several months. But yesterday morning enough dampness got in where it shouldn't've and killed my phone, and I'm on dial-up. This afternoon, a repairman fixed it. $75. I suppose I should have, but just wasn't up to it. Too demoralized. I'm still pretty shot from the trauma of being dis-Internetted and the usual blips in my life, so will just post the latest of my exercises at Paint Shop:
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I broke my routine of doing something daily at Paint Shop yesterday because I the dead phone had me too down. But I went back to it this morning, even before I was back on the Internet, so I guess I do have some resilience. The mathemaku I made, I wanna emphasize, is a first draft. At the outset, I was only trying to see what I could do with the idea of making my piece as a mosaic. The words I initially chose were incidental, only. Then, I saw how I might fit them together by changing one or two of them slightly. The message I got seems much too overt to me: sunlight, as source of life, yields simple life-forms when "multiplied" by appetite--and those life-forms equal fish when ambition (interest in more than food and sex) is added to them. As I now work out the message--which I advise every poet to find in his poem, every poem having, finally, some kind of message unless asemic and thus, in my philosophy, not a poem--I question the idea that fish really having any higher ambitions, so may have to change either "fish" or "ambition."
I don't think this poem will work as a mosaic, so will probably not try to make it one. I still want to do a mosaic mathemaku, though.
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