on 757. Maybe it was great then, but couldn’t have been that great, because I don’t think it lasted. It’s like seeing Hair these days. The show is so dated and so unmiraculous now that it’s really difficult to even appreciate it for what it was. This poem lacks everything interesting.

on 758. I love ‘latch them softly’. I wonder if Emily ever knew that we in computer hardware design would use the term latch to refer to a small cache of memory. The rest my interest doesn’t ignore, but isn’t crystalized enough to make the impression that there’s a whole lot more in there worth struggling for.

I saw a poster today that said something like, "Outing club, better than licking moose hair". That kind of random humor is so popular, along with alternative music that seems to just delight in being so simple and stupid that basically anybody could do it. My problem with it is that it’s advocating use of simple, easy and any rather than difficult, ingenious and startling humor, music, words, art. At a certain level you should be able to read through poetry as fast as prose and at least be so struck by some part of the poem that you are drawn in to catch the more subtle details.

I’m convinced that there’s a way for practically any thought or emotion to be conveyed with just the right words. Always the difficulty is finding those words which will pass through the filter that is the recipient's perception in order to generate in them what they cause you to think and feel.

on 761. Sounds almost like walking through a mine field. If you follow this along a bit, I imagine that it would probably be better to walk carelessly through the field than examine each step. After all, at the end of the field (how could you tell?) where are you (Indefinite disclosed)?