Appendix to NPatSS

[rowens]

 

                   Appendix to NPatSS

Savage, unique, strange;
Magic, Poetry, Personal:                   My inheritance 
I am a son,                                          is soaked.    
my raise is paid 
myself.                                        A wallet in the toilet:
                                                         will you open it? 
My paper is trees,
my money is me.
                                More importantly, 
                                                          will It return?

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This poem refers to an unfinished essay called Savage Icke, and an unfinished poem called Natalie Portman and the Silver Surfer.

[TranquillityBase]

This is intriguing.  Is it going to grow?  I'd love to read a poem about Natalie Portman and the Silver Surfer (or an essay).

[rowens]

I haven't been writing much. I've had the essay and poem unfinished for three years. So I wrote this to build up tension, tension to be burned by writing.

[Leaf]

Hi rowens,

The wallet in the toilet is intriguing. Yes, I'll open it.

[rowens]

There's a Charles Bukowski poem where his wallet falls in the toilet at the racetrack. As I wrote that line, I remembered that. At the same moment, not before or after. If I had never heard of that poem, it would nevertheless be an allusion. Not a significant allusion, but they are diverse, allusions.