Is life real or not?
(Simulation argument)
Maybe illusion?

All the big thinkers
Wondered what’s real or isn’t…
the envelope, please?

think fantasical
because things aren’t what they seem
so they’re something else.

Well, later than the clock inside says, damn daylight savings time.

Be that as it may, I needs be off to do some food-gathering and just to be outside a bit. I sent off my last three haiku to the @nypl contest, having realized too late that they didn’t mean submit THREE short poems but that you could submit three short poems A DAY. But then again one paragraph did seem to indicate that @NYPL should be included in each poem and that just can’t be so. Right?

Right?

OK, then. Out of my hands anyway.

I’m outta here and I will figure out what time it is somewhere else.

Via Cammy Kaynor today. I think all of us New Englanders and Near-New Englanders take every opportunity to see the foreshadowing of Spring this time of year.

Dear March – Come In-
(Emily Dickinson #1320)

Dear March – Come in-
How glad I am-
I hoped for you before-

Put down your Hat-
You must have walked-
How out of breath you are-
Dear March, how are you, and the Rest-
Did you leave Nature well-
Oh March, Come right up stairs with me-
I have so much to tell- Continue reading →

I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind’s door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were. – Joan Didion

via Brainpickings.org

and I think it’s not possible to have too many mechanical pencils…

Which is why I should stay out of Staples when they have these on sale… just sayin’.

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