clean up- a meditation on prophecy

WEDNESDAY, like 3 weeks later

i have really been out of the loop, i mean really
part of that is that schoolhouse has started and

im under the gun, partly because im tired of social media
tired of putting my business in the street, tired of being bent

out of shape by how many comments did i get, how much readership
do i have, how many 'friends', im tired, but ima go back on to talk about

ubud and bali next week, and i put up the comments by obama on fb
lot of folk jumped me on it which is what i expected, but im still backing obama

i dont do it too overtly nowadays because he has embarrassed me so many time
but i still got his back, and felt it when he told the CBC i never promised easy

warrington said, we will stop complaining when he stop compromising
i think he has stopped but he has fooled me before, we shall see, im out

obama to CBC (and black america)  "I never promised easy. Easy’s never been promised to us. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I have to press on. You have to stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying. We are going to press on. We have work to do.”

 

WEDNESDAY

hello world, figured i would go into rootsblog clean up some old categories
made the mistake of reading them before i did, man i got a lot of trash

i would like to go over all my previous posts and bring them up to speed
and cut out all embarrassing revelations, ie cut the heart out of them

ima leave them up, they a record, the archives of my evolution, though im starting to question
the value of my relentless sense of destiny, no nibbles on rest starting to wear on me

and one publisher has had it almost a month, thats freaky, now i got so many ideas of how to play w/it

that once again old draft is totally inadequate for my purposes, i dont blame them for balking (yes i do)
i guess i will have to accept that i will never be satisfied with it, i will quit working on it when somebody

buys it and says 'youre done, no mas.'

then i will be unable to read it again, like my other novels, cant past the cringetest - the literary life is one
of constant exposure, good and bad, i think what ima do when i get a moment is copy the original posts

onto my computer, then edit them down online, just like i would do w/any project
why would i show the 1st draft of anything to the pubic

ps: (hour later) you know what just came to me, ima prophetize those earlier posts, ima foreload them like the bible does,
make them work as prophecy after the fact, that way rootsblog will become a meditation on prophecy

i like that - urban offering - thomas barbey

Comments

[Tyler McAndrew]

hey, flowers. don't worry about comments. we're out here.

[Karen Simpson]

Yes, don't worry I stop by to see what you have to say. Glad to see your new post

[arf]

tyler, drop me a email arflower@syr.edu, catch me up on your mfa quest, you got in somewhere as i recall, is that working out