my words
are not a source for direct quotation without attribution.
I need my thoughts as much as you do
well, more!
I still share so many with you
string together so many for you
feel so many from you
but
my words are mine
I need them too
so from now on, I'll just shut up.
Monday, August 10, 2009
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I know the feeling.
But not about you though! Of course.
That sounded cryptic when I read it: "I know the feeling."
Odd I feel like if I'd put an exclamation point, it would not have seemed cryptic, but more of a hearty yeah-I've-been-there.
I know the feeling!
Lol :)
Oh no, sir, I know what you were implying! Even though you haven't the basis for such implications! ;P
Huh? I don't know what I'm implying! :-D
I keep reading and re-reading what I said. I'm like, self-inscrutable!
What? I meant that your "I know the feeling" was about me, implying you've felt the same way I have in this poem, except toward me---even though you specifically denied feeling that way with regard to me. Or more precisely, because you specifically denied feeling that way with regard to me. Denial makes you look suspicious. ;P
It's a pretty straightforward joking aha.
What bugs me is I can't remember what the words were! I excised them in 2010 and left the piece standing as it was. I can't remember what they were or how they fit into it.
Pique is a good word. It's sort of a cute version antonym of forbearance! I have pique at need, though it's not a patch on my umbrage.
Let alone my dudgeon. Oooo. But my forbearance tends to win out - never with you! It would be literally impossible for me to exercise forbearance with you, because forbearance is the restraint of one's justified wrath.
I wonder what dudgeon is. I could look it up I guess, but I prefer the romance of it meaning dudgeon and nothing other than dudgeon!
There should be a sort of manners & etiquette RPG called Dudgeons & ... okay, that about exhausts the comment.
I excised them in 2009, I mean.
Wait, you excised what words? from where? Did you know at the time what I was talking about in this poem? Did I know you knew? How embarrassing. I mean, I was piqued, but this seems slightly passive-aggressive or bit--y. I guess not passive-aggressive if I also told you outright. And maybe just a little possessively nitpicky rather than bit--y. Then again, I'm not sure we're both talking about the same thing, or know what the other means.
Apparently what happened was, I'd taken two lines of your prose and written a poem off 'em. I often do the same from mine, but in this case I left YOUR lines in. ATYPICAL. Then I noticed what I'd done, which was not like me! And I went WHOOPS and I brought your attention to it, and the upshot of it all was you agreed, it wasn't the sort of thing I'd ought to have done.
Anyway, I'd already cut the first version and substituted another. As is not unusual, the poem had more the quality of a tangent. It wasn't really "of a piece" with the lead-in.
Okay. So we both knew, but not because I was the one to point it out. That's okay then. When I look at this "poem" I know exactly what I was talking about, but apparently the exact circumstances of the context are more vaporous. I'm glad I wasn't passive-aggressive. I hate that. HAAATE it. Ahem. :Sigh: Ugh, sheesh! (I'm trying to be passive-aggressive here, but it doesn't really work well in typing and without any reason to be passive-aggressive.) Wow, we are 5 years older than when we started this conversation.
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