About
- Every morning I take something I wrote on paper the day before and I put it in my guitar.
- Every time I put something in my guitar, I do a post on this blog with the letter ‘g’ for guitar.
- After 120 days, I take off the strings and fish everything out.
- “Guitar poems” is just the project’s name… not a manuscript name. Maybe there will be a manuscript called “That’s the end little girl,” or “Good Times,” or something else.
Pourquoi?
I want to more thoroughly forget the things I write so when I read them it will be like someone else’s poems and they won’t suffer from the usual guilt-by-association. This is an experience I already have sometimes but want to systematize.
I’m going to have to cut a certain amount of shit out of my days. Not good shit, just shit. I’m going to have to carry around a little alarm that goes off whenever there’s some too-unnecessary shit, the non-essential unnecessary shit. Days are longer than I think.
If I don’t like it, I can always resume non-essential unnecessary shit after four months.
The things I put in the sound hole should be good & substantial. There will of course be days when I’m putting in just a couple lines, and that’s fine. But I want to aim for the things I put in the sound hole to be somewhat whole.
I’m starting today, December 22, because it is almost Christmas, almost New Year’s, so it would be natural to start on January 1, which is when everyone starts things. So by starting on December 22, I will make myself think that things like dates and holidays and the assorted bumps and features we’ve erected in time do not influence me.
It is going in the guitar because I looked around for a box I could put a slit in, but I didn’t have any boxes at the time, so I decided the guitar would work. I don’t ever play the guitar. I suppose if someone picks it up to play it it’s not going to sound quite right b/c it will have paper in it.
I’m a little concerned about the capacity of the guitar but I’ll deal with that somehow if it becomes a problem.
