Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 05:42:13 -0500
Subject: 



remembering old thoughts
-----------------------------------

when did i stop
being quick and judgemental

when did i start worrying about being
authoritarian
and controlling

when did i stop
sitting in the rain
listening to music

when did i realise
that i can listen to
my instincts

when did the world stop
being about me

-annapurna
age 33 in 2002

----- Original Message -----
From: radhika gajjala <radhika-AT-cyberdiva.org>
To: <sa-cyborgs-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 7:37 AM


 > browsing old hard drives...
 > _____________________________
 > ___
 > i wrote a poem
 > or
 > what
 > i call
 > a poem
 > sometimes
 >
 >          and i deleted it
 >
 > the computer swallowed the words without a sound
 >
 > greedy greedy computer
 >
 > eating up words
 >
 > words i can't
 > afford
 > to throw away
 >
 >                  but its not poetry i need to write
 >                  my poetry is not
 >                  my life's work
 >          to
 >          day
 >
 > which is why
 > the rain doesn't mean
 > any
 > thing to me
 > today
 >
 >                  which is what i was writing about in that last poem which
 > the computer swallowed
 >
 > the rain, the music
 > they
 > don't mean anything to
 > day
 >
 >
 > - December 1996
 > _____
 >
 >
 >
 > Radhika Gajjala
 >
 > _______________________
 > http://www.cyberdiva.org
 >
 >
 >