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Surgery date and revamped poems
9 years ago
The date for my knee-surgery has now officially been set for Thursday, the 31st this month. The week before that I will undergo several cardiological tests and exams, but those are not expected to reveal anything disquieting. There's a good chance I will be AFK for a day or two following the surgery, and that my output will be reduced a fair bit in the weeks thereafter. I trust that everybody can understand why.
In the meantime: there's a few poems in my gallery that I've always liked, but that I've simultaneously also been frustrated with because they felt like imperfect versions of themselves. I debated for a good long while whether to rewrite them, what to do with the originals, whether to edit the existing versions or upload new ones, etc., because I didn't want to pull a George Lucas and ruin something that had once been great. But ultimately I decided the new versions I had written genuinely worked better, and so I went ahead and edited the originals in the gallery. The old versions (may they rest in peace) are gone forever, and the new ones will take their place. The tone, intent, and even general format of the originals have all been preserved, but verses have been added, removed, and altered in order to create a version that better lines up with my original vision.
The poems in question are:
- Voluntary Synesthesia
- Breathe in my Watercolor Fumes
- And finally I don't sleep. I dream.
All three pieces are quite personal to me, and so I genuinely struggled with the decision to rewrite them. I guess only time will tell whether this proved to be a good idea.
Love,
Seskra
In the meantime: there's a few poems in my gallery that I've always liked, but that I've simultaneously also been frustrated with because they felt like imperfect versions of themselves. I debated for a good long while whether to rewrite them, what to do with the originals, whether to edit the existing versions or upload new ones, etc., because I didn't want to pull a George Lucas and ruin something that had once been great. But ultimately I decided the new versions I had written genuinely worked better, and so I went ahead and edited the originals in the gallery. The old versions (may they rest in peace) are gone forever, and the new ones will take their place. The tone, intent, and even general format of the originals have all been preserved, but verses have been added, removed, and altered in order to create a version that better lines up with my original vision.
The poems in question are:
- Voluntary Synesthesia
- Breathe in my Watercolor Fumes
- And finally I don't sleep. I dream.
All three pieces are quite personal to me, and so I genuinely struggled with the decision to rewrite them. I guess only time will tell whether this proved to be a good idea.
Love,
Seskra
