People Poems · PHOTO-0569

Going

2025-07-20 · Miami

Original typewritten page for Going by Chris the Poet

Transcription

this is my firs t’ime using a typewri ete i tuhink its going well,, although it got ja mmed a few times. Sometimes that happens when you dedicate yourself to motion--you get jammed, stuck in the mud on the page, sometime you have to get out and push, only to re&lize that you're not even sure of what direction you! going in, that's what happensSeee But there's a wisdom in just going, just setting off, embarking, planting your good foot in some half-way fruitful metaphor and pushing off without guarantees, just the contentedness of wind in your face, even if it all might be a dream, even if your bones are sore because they've started sprouting flowers,, going and going even through the changing scenes, the changing faces, the absences that shout at stab from your periphery.ee Going and going through hours and days and words and sentences become blurs, finding, to your surprise, that even at a breakneck pace heading god knows meres your constant rate has become relaxing as if you were Zt tanding still.. |