i write on any scrap of paper i can find

by panta rhei

Posted to Utterances on 2003-02-26 02:42:00

Parent message is 390633
i used to have a small notebook i carried around, but since it’s full i went back to small notes and any slips of paper within reach (like the backside of traintickets, receipts, napkins, price tags, wrapping paper… the pockets of my pants and jacket are stuffed with those, and if there aren’t any pockets, i stuff my socks)

best thoughts occur during walks and trainrides and right before i fall asleep… i write them down if there’s a pen within reach… if not, i simply use them as vehicles thAT carrY me further –

words fall where they may… onto paper, into dreams and meadows, or across glances that linger in the stale air of a train compartment…

(words are lying down as
long night shadows
along hardened snowdrifts

the train i’m on is moving
across a beautiful landscape
of words and weed

on cold rails
along which only a wind
and my thoughts dare to wander )