Pen and Patterns Typed Up
(the second third fourth draft)
I am writing in my diary
or notebook and now
I am judicious with a word or two
so that I find myself struggling
while I hold a pen, not a smartphone,
which anyway I do not own. But I’m
familiar enough with technology,
the internet and word doc, to find I’m
myself responding in automatic world
correction mode. My expectation of a
(phantom) auto-correct would likely
lessen diminish if I take myself
out of that world and compose
with pen alone.
I like the pen, a tool that respects any
additions, or striking out, though the full
wretched (thinking) process is left (entirely)
in my hands. (Oh, never say inadequate the pen.)
Thankfully, over the years, these (repairs)
are becoming less which is no more than
I would hope; usually, a word (or phrase) left out
so that the marginalia extends (and those words
not required! Well it’s six of one, half a dozen
of the other. Sometimes almost another stanza added.)
An honesty of the first draft,
a beauty in such mistakes as I make.
There is, I suppose a pattern to them.
(Would it, I ask myself, be more
appropriate that for this copy
(into word doc) I should then
have selected something like
Segoe Script)
Benita Kape © 21.3.2018
I’m world etc = first draft deleted words
(phantom) (thinking) (entirely) etc = second, third or fourth draft words or phrases deleted or (added)
LOL, bingo!
Are you entering this into that humorous poetry contest I posted to FB-Mindful Poetry? Love this. Its truthfulness makes me smile.
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Hi Susan,
Thanks for coming by. I’ve no plans to enter contests at the moment Susan. NaPoWriMo is coming up soon and not sure I’ll commit to that this year. I’m writing every day anyway, but I will keep my eye on it.
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