Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝ on Nostr: any time I start speaking, I could have stopped in mid-poem years ago, and be about ...

any time I start
speaking, I could have stopped in mid-poem
years ago, and be about to continue

Or anyone else
could be about to continue a poem
this one or some other
Is there really another?
This wouldn't be
without words read in the past
back through what I've heard, read
what everyone near me did
back to other languages and dim time

It won't be
without people to wonder why
a pause brings a poem, not conversation
People in the future