January 7, 2012

  • Quotation

    There is something cathartic, therapeutic
    about writing ideas on an old piece of paper.
    Maybe it’s in the way the stained paper feels
    beneath your fingertips, your granite paintbrush.
    Maybe it’s in the way you can imagine the words
    soaring from nothing to something, into history
    like an eagle in motion viscose. It holds the emotion
    in a jar of formaldehyde and observation perverse.
    You can take a piece of paper almost anywhere.
    You can take your mind, your very quintessence
    and smear it upon a page, close it, open it again,
    see the Rorschach patterns that the affair has woven.
    — Excerpt from For Auld Lang Syne, written under the pen-name ~RBZilla, June 2011.