conceptually I love this.

the way it is worded it is an effort to read, but I am still able to extract the feelings and images in spite of the wording and find there wonderful powerful poetry.

I want to totally re write this keeping the message intact and changing all the wording.

don't worry, I'll resist the temptation this time.

but changing the wording would change the message.

all my poetry is a live feed from my mind, and that was my thoughts last night as i was watching titus andronicus.

yeah sure I know

but reading a poem also changes the message.

How much different is it really? well...as different as knowing I love you and confessing it publicly, I suppose...that's why I'm not really going to do it even though I am tempted.

and yeah I know, live feed... I often write poetry that way too.

but I love rewriting perhaps even more than I enjoy writing, so often I go back and rewrite those live feed poems.

I do not rewrite my poems, for I fear my mind and moment will be lost. Just like a photograph that is taken into photoshop and altered.

I understand. I have that feeling, but along with it the understanding that the moment of the past is still preserved in the original poem. Nothing is taken from a poem when I rewrite it, just the original is allowed to both remain as it is and to grow forward in a different direction.

for the most part, I don't erase the original when I create a new version.

but as I said, each time I read a poem, whether I wrote it or someone else, a new version of it is created. it becomes a poem I read twice, not a poem I read once. a poem I understand in a different way. Writing a comment on something also changes it. this poem has already become a poem I read several times, thought about quite a bit, and had an interesting discussion with the poet.

This is true also of rewriting. If I rewrite something, it becomes a poem I have a second (or in some cases maybe 10th or more) version of also.

some of those versions are very very different, to the point you might not realize they are initially the same poem. I will post an example of this later to show you more clearly what I am talking about, and I'll give you a link when I post it in case you are interested, but you don't have to read them i you don't want to.

lol and then those poems will grow to be something I posted here for you which you either read or chose not to read, and that also adds something to their message.

we can only go forward. life is change. nothing is set in stone. and if it is, even the stone it is set in changes. The trick is not to try to keep it unchanging but instead to choose the good and let the bad fall away.

you say it is a live feed, but you want it to be dead by the time you feed it to me. Is it really more humane...lol odd word...more merciful?...to kill the rat before the snake eats it? why not give it a fighting chance at life, let it die against a worthy adversary rather than be killed by a monster who gives it no chance at all? ...or is that cruel because the snake might also be harmed?

you are what you eat, right? If I am eaten by a snake I become the snake, right? ...only sort of.