Experiment

1.
How do you capture a moment?
It's time, you know. It's hard to hold on to well.
Words don't work, but they're better than
I don't know, maybe they're just

I like words. They work for me.


2.
Well, working for is so
It's so confining
So much of one working for the other
Like one controlling.
They work for me
I work for them
We cooperate. It's not really work, because
It just works.

3.
What's wrong with time moving on?
People try to capture moments
(as though time could be ensnared, like a beast)
But sometimes they're so
They capture the moment instead of living it
Until maybe the moment was never there
But for the captured proof.

4.
We live in the present because
The future's not here yet
And it's really hard to go back
And anyway, the past is only so interesting.

5.
I still like to look at photographs
Of things I've done.

6.
What I'm writing now- words-
Am I trying to catch a moment?
No, it's just a thought.

Much better. I'll put it in a cage so I can look at it
And poke my finger through the bars
And hope it doesn't bite.

7.
It's not capturing.
Sure, that's what people say
But it's just documentation
For a bureaucratic God.
God needs proof? Not omnipresent, I guess.
Or perhaps the proof is for someone else.
Anyway, capturing's not it at all.
It's just the word we use.
Words.
And here I thought words and I were getting along so well.
Perhaps I'll put them in the cage too, and then we'll see which one captures the other:
Ideas, or their expression?