A Full Notebook

Posted on August 16, 2003 in Writing

Though I had to press hard to make the last pages no longer resemble a lonely girl sitting at the edges of a dance in the last hours of yesterday, I managed to meet the challenge* again. I dropped the battered and dog-eared completion atop two others next to the bed. I will read them all in the days to come.

A new one — a naked virgin — lays open next to me. When you first pick one up, it is anorexic, starved for your attentions. After you live with it and fondle it constantly, it fattens up on your sweat and your ink.

I hold on to all my cellulose lovers. They keep my secrets for me and tell me things about myself that I didn’t notice during the writing of them.

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* I try to fill one seventy page notebook a month.