Doodle #7569
Happenstance happens too fast
to ever stand up to investigation;
but still we welcome it, smile when
we fall upon it, smile even when it
falls upon us. Some remember &
go with their mother's advice — never
look a gift horse in the mouth. I tend
to prefer the pedantic Louis Pasteur —
chance favors the prepared mind.
telescopic nightmares
I am learning about how fish
disrupt sleep. Their imagery
tends to feel very real, inhab-
its cold, deep water, feeds on
other fish, possesses immense
power to affect one's life. Their
telescopes can capture evidence
of possible alien cities on Prox-
ima B. The strong suction cups
allow them to be attached to
larger predators & grab prey
in total darkness. At night they
prowl those large basalt plains
on the Moon that are called
seas because, from a distance,
that's exactly what they look like.
Another "Just So Story"
Left abandoned on the high
veldt, I notice how parts of
speech often do not hang to-
gether. Rather run their own
races — all the fullstops coal-
esced in a ball by a waterhole,
the commas top to tail in a
daisy chain that winds through
the grass & on up to the distant
hills. As for the conditional
clauses — well. . . Sometimes
words might stop to talk to
me, but because there is no co-
herence to their delivery they
are left lying on the ground
like scat, unheeded until some-
one like Rudyard Kipling sees
them & theorizes how leopards
might have come by their spots.
A line from Anna Akhmatova
The drummer & his quartet were
afraid to leave the environments they
knew, were also unaware of a certain
person held in detention. Add in the
small things overlooked each day,
those poems never read. & even when
they paid attention, they were care-
less. Micro-signals lose impact when
they're overly polished. Leave room
to drift, remember times when songs
were heard that brought back mem-
ories & think: she wanted storms.