The Thursday! Newsletter 2-17: And Now for Something Completely Not Newsletter-y!
Volume 2, Issue 17
How about a poem this week?
In truth, I don't have anything particularly newsletter-y to say this week that I haven't said a few times already and I really don't want to be trite, predictable, and boring with you. So I'm going to do what, creatively, I do best. I'm going to share a poem with you. I hope you will like it. It's possible you won't. Let's take a chance, though, and see what happens. Nothing interesting happens without risk, right? Okay. Here we go.
Pondering the Abyss
I spent some time last week
Gazing into the abyss, which isn't
The kind of thing that's generally recommended.
But I was curious about what might gaze back
Would its eyes be the same deep brown as mine?
I expect so, since the abyss and whatever monster
Gazes back is strictly a Nietzschean allegory.
Except my abyss is a soul-dark pit,
Disguised cleverly to look like a mailbox
The kind for newspapers, when newspapers
Were a thing. And I am pleased to report that
After gazing for some time into its unknowable gloom,
The monster that lives there has lovely cold blue eyes,
And is quite well read, for a Nietzschean allegory.
I had come across the particular quote that inspired this poem a couple of times in the past few days and it seemed fitting that I write a poem about it. I didn't expect that poem to show up here nor to be a little bit tongue-in-cheek. Though you could fairly say that anyone who deals with depression on a regular basis does a fair amount of staring into their own personal abyss, which may or may not be a newspaper box. I mean, mine is, but that doesn't mean all of them are, does it?
I do this kind of thing quite a lot on my web site, which I've called JimmieWrites. I also link to the poems and stories I write in the section just an inch or so farther down the newsletter. I'd like it very much if you read some of my work and, if you like it, share it with someone else you think might like it.
Anyhow, that's the newsletter for this week. Next week's will most likely be a bit more like normal, but the way my creative mind has been careening around the room like a deflating balloon, who can say? I will certainly try my best. That's all any of us can do.
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