Moon talk (poetic prose)

[Doreen Peri]

Mingo -

Craig:

Thanks for remembering my name, Doreen.
I remember a lot about your distinctive writing.
I always liked your strong wit and at the same time
your easy going irony even so your feelings remain
mysterious in the moonlight of your reflection.

I don't know how I could forget. You've been one of my favorite writers online since the litkicks days and I remember you used to use the screen name "Qat" at that time. Right? I've loved your work for a long time and even though I don't post here often lately, I stop by and when you post, I notice, and I read your work and continue to be amazed by your pen. It's a high compliment to me to hear praise about my work from someone who writes at your calibre. I'm embarrassed I forgot your name at first, but hey, I'm 60 now, and just the other day, I couldn't remember words like ... um... oh crap... what were the words I couldn't remember? Jeezzz... this sucks. I was going to list them for you. Everyday words! I was talking to my sister and I stuttered and she had to fill in the blanks to tell me the words I was searching for, I mean simple words like... uhhh... something. Sigh. Oh yeah! I couldn't remember the word "faucet". I said, "you know, turn the umm... the ummm... what is it? Turn it on in the sink!" and another one was you know, the guy that wrote the Alice books? What's his name? She had to remind me. Lewis Carroll. How could I forget his name? I don't know if it's early Alzheimers or if 60 would even be EARLY for Alzheimers or what it is but my memory is going to crap and I hope to hell that if it goes entirely, I'll be able to forget about all those mysterious feelings I have like thinking people are talking about me or they're against me or they don't like me because paranoia and even caring what people think hasn't been fun so I say bring on the memory loss, Craig! Except for the fact that I'll always remember your poetry and I even remember conversations we had over at litkicks. I remember one, especially, where you helped me grow spiritually when we were talking about Jesus being a myth and I got all defensive and said I knew he really existed and you were instrumental in my studying the truth but let's not bring up serious issues here, OK?... except for the fact that I'm seriously honored to know you and to have been reading your writing for a good 14 years now and I seriously respect you and I thank you, seriously, for the kind words about my odd sense of humor and isn't it ironic that a rabbit and a qat can be the same animal? Thank you, Craig. ♥

[revolutionrabbit]

Like I said I have learned a lot in my years of writing on the internet.
Sometimes I got too caught up in exchanges in online conversations.
I was on one site called Deoxy where I started a poetry forum, and
there was a chat board, this was also around the time of the early
Litkicks.I was still trying to figure out what this whole internet thing
was about.it was all new to me, I was trying to see where it was going.
Through the eyes of a poet/writer.I understand your memory thing, I
am now 63 and I have always had a good long term memory, sometimes
my short term memory is a blank.But I think I have always been this way.
I have been fighting chronic fatigue for 30 years, and before that, well
the life of a crazy cat poet.I take supplements for my memory and I eat
a lot of super food, and only things that are healthy. It would be difficult
to say what happened in my life in the last 10 years.I wrote my novel and
then I had what I can only call a nervous breakdown, I don't go to doctors
but I got a lot of acupuncture.My wife Meryl was in the last few years having
some odd symptoms, I wont go into detail here about what happened.Suffice
to say I don't know how I have gotten through all this.All I know is I began
writing poetry in 1970 and it became my way of life, long story. I still write
some on a site called RealitySandwich.But Studio 8 Poetry has been like a
refuge for me.I still read a lot of stuff on the internet.Philosophy has always
been important to me, and I was interested in a lot of people that have been
on the cutting edge as thinkers, and writers. I was just reading about the astrology
chart of Russel Brand, the actor/comedian, who says he is no longer addicted
to drugs but he is addicted to thinking, and he thinks about a lot of things, and
he tells it like it is.This is also the job of the poet or the calling as i see it.
Have a nice day Doreen, and thanks for being you. Peace & Love

[Arcadia]

good to see you posting again, Doreen & to make home to glow & crack with your unique writing!!!!! Hugs to you, dear friend!!