Today's Off Prompt Poem [Found Poetry]
The Poem
all the emotions one might be feeling a queer feeling I sometimes get a feeling that I've got something important to say that I've got the power to say it I don't know how to make use of the power
some different way of writing something else to write about I'm pretty good at inventing phrases the sort of words that make you jump even though they're about something obvious
that doesn't seem enough it's not enough for phrases to be good what you make with them out to be good too I could do something much more important Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly they'll go through anything
Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World; and, Brave New World Revisited. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2004, p. 73.
Today's Process
The prompt for today's poem was "No toilet paper!". I flipped, admittedly somewhat half-heartedly, through about 20 pages looking for anything that seemed to connect with the prompt and found nothing.
I landed on page 73 twice though in my searching and these words pierced me. So, I'm off prompt today but this is the first time in this exercise it's really been about the words and not just about the shape or the art. This is early enough in the book it's quite possible this is the page that originally grabbed my attention and made me love this book even though I can barely tell you about anything beyond it's highest level theme.
About Today
Today was the hardest day of this quarantine yet. A day that was supposed to be spent with family, listening to littles giggle while hunting eggs and splitting their loot. A day that would be marked with good food and family time. We still had family time, albeit by Zoom, and there was still good food - but as someone who isn't necessarily a "holiday's must be like this" kind of person - today just wasn't. Tomorrow will be better I hope, but it's back to 9 hours a day of Zoom which I can't honestly say I'm looking forward to either.