Thursday March 7 2024

mjbwriting
2 min readMar 7, 2024

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Why does planning happen? To economize. The fuel burning energy. Valence and velocity. The force of it. Propelling it. The vehicle.
I am the vehicle. The song. With words or not.
The words are not the song. The words are part of it.
The sounds are not the song. The sounds are part of it.
What is the song? The piece. What is the piece? How do we see it hear it know it recognise it — sing along with it? Play along with it?
When we’re making it. When we’re being made by it.
When we’re activated by it. When we worship it.
When we run away from it. When we run away with it. When we run away to it. When we turn to it. When we turn away from it.
When we take it make it be our own. When we own it. When we deny it. When we refuse it. When we reply to it. When we return to it.
When we dream of it. When we long for it. When we reach for it. When we get into it. When we are becoming it.
When we modulate it. When we change the key of it — the tempo, feel, the swing of it.
When it is at last our own forgotten thing. When we remember it. When it is at the core of us being it in some way or another. Our way.

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A song is what you start and end with. Giving and receiving it.
An expression. A drink. A line. A boat. A ship.
Outer inner spacing.

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This song has sunlight shadows shining, moving people cars and other vehicles in it. That is all a part of it. But not it.
It starts anywhere you start it at, from.
It ends anywhere you end it at, to.
It is there before you start it.
It keeps going on after you have ended it.

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There is living loving going on. The course of it.
A song of it is telling.
You are a song of it. Giving and receiving it.

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We are co-conspirators with it. We are co-dependents.
We pretend it is outside of us. An independent agent activating us. A power influence expressed.
That is part of how we make the song — by denying any ownership of it, our responsibility for it, our authorship of it. So that we can then receive the holy ghost of it. Receive its sublime spirit. And be moved by it. And go along with it. In the spirit of it and the time of being with it, there with it, there for it, and making something out of it. Something meaningful to us. Something else again.

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Now there is an imprint of this moment. A moment is a song. We can feel it linger on. We have been transformed by it again. We have been returned by it again to what it is that makes it what it is and going on.
Do carry on with it. Go with it. Go be with it. Good be!

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mjbwriting

An experimental writer. PhD. Novels: Monkey & Anderson (Pedlar Press). Oblique Journal: The Hinge of Things. I also make music and photos.