. . . Oh god, the glare . . . of course I care . . . kill those lights . . .  kill them, not spill them 
. . . whatever, whichever switch works ever . . .

. . . risible . . . why I remarked wonderful, why do you wonder? . . .

-Palimpsests and pamphlets                                
out of 
myself-
--five straightforward aims inward--

1.Scraping off the first coat with a fine-toothed fury and scrolling on a second 
is the closest our editors can apply to a panacea.

2. Memories aren’t memories if they’re recorded over.  The premise is practical.  Practically
believable (until you put it in practice).

. . .  Kindly cut the comments from the floor . . . questions and answers acceptable after . . .

3. In practice, the job is shoddy: just sheets shamed with 
text 
over 
text until the page 
ri///ps

Film
over
film
until
the
tape 
-www- -eee- -aaaa a- -rr rr- -s ss s- -oo o- -uuu uu- -t tt-.

. . . Yes, that period is perfectly placed . . .
. . . not applying punctuations to graphics is graphically appalling . . .

4. Acknowledging the original artifact?  Hardly optional.  Visible violations omnidirectional.

. . . Why is it inadmissible? . . . patience is a point. . .
. . . nine years begging ‘teach me to erase’ . . .
. . . sight’s sake . . .  see the space isn’t vacant . . .

. . . There’s mess of print to mark a line, leading all the way back to cracked well,
                                                       just as well, 
                                                                    jet spill,
                                                                                   where the paper’s soaking wet,

pasted layers
past is permeable
past permanent
stilted substrate
decade’s denial.

. . . back to the text, check . . .

. . . audio cued, visuals in view . . .

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Okay, put those in ‘subject to revision’ box.  Just put renewal in the rationale line.

I swear, who spelled out this sentence?  We’re not preaching pretense here people.

Touché, touché.  Touch this page please.  Are we painting or posing?

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. . . A caesura everyone . . .
. . . the room smells excessively of ink and other ineffable things . . .
. . . ironic to admit aloud . . .
. . . refrain from all staining, corporate is considering corporal punishment . . .
. . . jesting?  joking? . . . poor taste, what a waste . . .

5. One more edition, with an addition to the epigraph.  Which signals
the pivot – even though the title’s turned erroneously.

. . . see what I did there?  . . . can you foot the bill for that fix? . . .

The text?  Teach me to embrace.  A little trite, mostly alright.

Put it in bold, instruction, not suggestion.
To remember and rejoice—not in the remembrance, but in the survival.
Best practice is a blank page and authorial intent to 
see the story before we scribble the sequel.

Who’s down for some light reading?
Oh, and for the record
. . . we are recording, right? . . .

Light’s a matter of opinion.

. . . fall free to feel and clap now . . .
. . . last year I let him muse me into this . . .
. . . nothing, nothing, just write over that . . .