Observation

The following are observations recorded in my notebook from 2009 to present.
 
 
A poet has three ways of looking: observation, memory, and imagination. (Could be a quote that I don’t know who to attribute to.)

 

I have to look at pictures of myself to remember who I am.

 

A friend is like a book of memories.

 

If you adopt someone else’s voice are you taking it away?

 

Once you become everyone, you are no one.

 

It’s dangerous to watch time too closely.

 

Train lovers seldom lie on the tracks.

 

Eventually we all become our representations.

 

There is pleasure in being alone in someone else’s home.

 

We leave marks on every place we visit.

 

I don’t want to live anywhere I can’t outrun the buildings falling.

 

What drives people to write on bathroom walls?

 

There are few things more painful than having the only seat in the bar that faces the married couple in the middle of an argument.

 

A baby’s sleeping form projects her mother.

 

The worst part about living in a cardboard box is anyone can kick your door in.

 

Students write their names in boxes.

 

Face, hands and feet are the most color-filled parts of the body.

 

I have imagined the death of every person I love.

 

Grass should be wild like pubic hair.

 

I haven’t observed much.

 

Next week I'll be thinking about metaphor.

 



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Go through your journal and write down every observation you have made.

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