Specimen Dayz

—for Walt Whitman

Down in the words—mulling around

if i do it at all—i must delay no longer

incongruous—full of skips and jumps

huddle of—verbatim diary-jottings

word-smudged—slate notebook notes

digital memoranda—automatic writings

hurriedly written—here & there

amidst uncertainty—and mortality

action, defeat—getting ready for it

taking notes—of the american tree

all bundled-up—tied to a mere stylus

haunted hour’s command—to write it down

later motifs & bumbles—realpolitic tropes

diary swaps—meandering memorabilia

laidback writing—letting it write itself

one after another—calamus pages

letting the mélange—movement prevail

impromptu, ad lib—lack of any narrative

listening to the other—spontaneous flow

illustrating the phase—writerly existence

chance—rather than planning it all out

finding myself—quite unprepared

hodge-podge lost things—loosely together

letting hurry & crudeness—tell the story

immediate—impromptu commands

which seem now—curiously imperative

even if i don’t—understand now

i’ll send out—a most wayward thing

spontaneous fragmentary—disjointed

somewhat whitmanesque—quickly?