When Writing Is Futile
This article started as one of my usual tormented urban poems but then I stopped…. I looked at the few words in front of me and I thought they were mostly crap. It did not work, there was no fluidity, no melody, no emergency maybe I had finally reached one of those dark outposts where you trip over your own tracks.
The previous few days I had stumbled over a surge of raw and sudden thoughts, I had fought against them for a while, but they were clearly too strong, was there any point anyway. For a moment, I settled with the comforting thought of becoming a spectator, I agreed there was too much vanity in this pedantic gymnastic called artistry, so getting encouraged by the soldiers of conformity I helped liberating whatever was left of human honesty.
At best, I thought I only temporarily had enough of playing the narrative ping pong, at worst I figured out it was about time to throw the twisted pen in the Mekong. With relief as a grief I finally began to accept that blogging was probably almost as futile as feeding chicken curry to a reptile.
Was there really a need anyway to constantly ride into a dead end, I am no writer. In no way, I despise the exercise, but writing is cumbersome, exhausting often gruesome, it’s sometimes a bit like inviting zombie friends to unearth emotions at a walking dead function.
On Monday I buried my mother in law,
Not a big fan of Hail Mary I was, for sure you knew, but It did not really matter as long as I ate some of your Irish stew. You believed in a guy wearing rags and carrying a big cross I did not. You accepted there would always be a bit of frost at the mention of the name of your big boss. To evoke this is needless, you were always selfish less, even in sickness or at the peak of your weakness………
On Wednesday, I finally left my job
No big deal, just a different drill, a different pose with a different prose. Marketing bloggers will tell me it’s a timely opportunity for a new personal centricity, an exciting time where only the best in the crowd will applaud, the sceptical may mention a new major fraud, on the other hand some meteorologists will produce a forecast stating there is a slight chance that the whole weather system one day might just explode.
It does not really matter if it is the most inconvenient time to get the baby out of his cot, there is no need to worry, in the end at our own game we all get caught….
On Friday
………………
Reprise
Not a big fan of Hail Mary I was, for sure you knew, but It did not really matter as long as I ate some of your Irish stew. You believed in a guy wearing rags and carrying a big cross I did not. You accepted there would always be a bit of frost at the mention of the name of your big boss. To evoke this is needless, you were always selfish less, even in sickness or at the peak of your weakness………
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Pascal Derrien
6 years ago #37
thanks for dropping by Lyon Brave ☺
Lyon Brave
6 years ago #36
Pascal Derrien
6 years ago #35
Shelley Brown many thanks for dropping by and for the kind words too ☺
Pascal Derrien
6 years ago #34
thanks not sure it is a masterpiece but this is all i could manage with the assistance of mind forceps ☺
Pascal Derrien
6 years ago #33
thanks for sharing this out of space dream funny there is one particular dream that has come back to me recently ☺
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6 years ago #32
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6 years ago #31
ah yeah it came up in french ☺had not even realized ☺ thanks for readung Joyce \ud83d\udc1d Bowen
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6 years ago #26
Pascal Derrien
6 years ago #25
Ah Praveen Raj Gullepalli you probably need to speak to the guy you are speaking about (but he aint' on this thread) :-)
Pascal Derrien
6 years ago #24
ah thats nice to hear especially coming from a real writer Paul Walters !!! :-)
Pascal Derrien
6 years ago #23
ah thanks Dean Owen I did not even had a job title on my last business card :-) those things are not for me in general :-)
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6 years ago #22
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6 years ago #21
Pascal Derrien
6 years ago #20
thanks Chas \u270c\ufe0f Wyatt a philosoph in his own right Chuck ☺
Lisa Gallagher
6 years ago #19
I'm so happy to hear that Pascal Derrien, that's when you know how much they value you and others. My kids were amazing too and it only deepened our relationships.
Pascal Derrien
6 years ago #18
thanks Lisa \ud83d\udc1d Gallagher I have learned a lot the last 6 weeks :-) My kids have impressed me the most.....
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6 years ago #17
Pascal Derrien
6 years ago #16
many thanks Donna-Luisa Eversley working on Sat as we speak :-) Appreciate your words from the heart
Pascal Derrien
6 years ago #15
thanks Franci\ud83d\udc1dEugenia Hoffman nice words maybe I should write about marketing content no I am joking :-)
Pascal Derrien
6 years ago #14
thnaks Ian Weinberg has to be irish dancing then :-)
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6 years ago #13
Pascal Derrien
6 years ago #12
thanks round and round we go that 's a kool circle of life description :-)
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Pascal Derrien
6 years ago #8
hu I am getting embarrassed by the comments now, you guys are probably reading another post and a technical glitch direct them to the comment section of this post. Thank you Lisa Vanderburg :-)
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6 years ago #7
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6 years ago #6
thanks @Julio Angel \ud83d\udc1dLopez Lopez :-) that made me smile :-) I think the day I start to believe in my own hype I am doomed ....
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Pascal Derrien
6 years ago #4
thank you Master Poet debasish majumder always good to see you casting an eye on this unstructured piece :-)
Pascal Derrien
6 years ago #3
oh thank you Sara Jacobovici I knid of agree it was intense enough to get that one out :-)
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