09-13-2025, 02:06 PM
(09-13-2025, 07:38 AM)rowens Wrote: Just enough repetition to resemble a hypnotic rhythmic pacing, just enough links between sense and sensibility, just enough loosening of predictability to allow for the giddy pleasure of freeing the mind and nervous system from having to pay attention while paying attention, same with the pleasure of making connections without the tension of context.Well this was from a conversation I had at work. I mean sometimes people say things to me at work and I remember them so I write them down. I am a homecare worker. I like the dialogue format/manner. I read a writer saying that dialogue does not follow mechanistically/predictably with people responding to each other's statements back and forth. That is not what naturally happens in dialogue, so he said. There is more to it than that (the unconscious/spontaneity) I mean it is full of novelty. In fact two people can have a dialogue and form very different impressions, even about what they were talking about. If I write a conventional 'poem' - I try to let it have this same natural 'unpredictability'. I mean I don't think about what I am 'supposed to be saying'- or what I just said, I don't try to remain 'connected' to what went beforeĀ - and I am not trying to 'make any sense to anybody'. So hopefuly, it is always totally effortless.

