Ron: Write off: that's what I often do when faced with things I don't wanna see.
Lily: At least you're honest about it. Many people pretend to see 'the truth' when there's so much they're missing.
Linda: You're human, Ron, in ways that are both beautiful and frustrating. Some people will 'write you off'. That's evitable. The important thing is when you encounter ambiguity or discomfort, to examine it closely rather than simply write it off.
Lex: 'Writing off' is a simply a cop out. It says, "I don't want to see anything incongruent with
my image of the world." Yet the world can never correspond to any image since it's
bigger than all images combined.

W R I T T E N O F F


A day will come when poetry writes me off -
and I pass from flesh to page

All my cherished works become digital fuzz -
a collection of artifacts from ah former age

A day will come when part of me
becomes mere characters on a screen

Poetry, however, has a way of reaching out
and touching souls unseen

Someday digital traces of former personality sub-routines
will flicker across networked info-beams

And in a virtual world both familiar 'n strange
cyborgs will delight in writing queerly


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