Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 05:42:51 -0500
Subject: 


so many poems
still born
swallowed by the most insiduous enemy of all
my mind
the thinking, reasoning mind

.....the only trace ...

my heart trying to remember them
like one trying to remember
a night's dream the next morning







 >From: radhika gajjala <radhika-AT-cyberdiva.org>
 >Reply-To: sa-cyborgs-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
 >To: sa-cyborgs-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
 >Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2002 21:07:45 -0500
 >
 >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


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