Okay, it is after midnight and I just completed one of my little scribbles and it disappeared before I could capture it to publish. Can someone tell me why this happens? I write my poem here, never thinking to save it, and poof, it is gone.
So I guess I only need to bellyache to you midnighters on gather because no one really cares I lost my scribbles but me. I'll just count it all joy that it is lost, and pretend I never wrote it? Yea, like that'll happen, hardly.
I wonder if Allen Ginsberg or Hemmingway or Frost ever lost a poem? Did they think it would be their best or last; did they hast to save time, not puntuate. Was it a race to get it done? Like, e.e.cummings who didn't know much about uppercase letters, make it more earnest than it really was. How will I ever know for my little midnight scribble is doing a happy little jig in cyberspace because I am too lazy to recreate it. So goodnight. ~ the lazy poet
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That is usually a second edit.
Then I copy and click to the publish article and drop it in there. I get used to feeling more comfy writing as I am now, but it's a bad habit for me!
And I hate losing my pearls!
If the up load doesn't work and there are a million things that can happen, you still have the piece
Where, where, are you tonight?
Why did you leave me here all alone?
I searched the world over,
And thought I found true love.
You met another and
Phht! you were gone.
Sounds like this song would make a great soundtrack for your experience.
Here's a tanka Salute to the Problem
I think I'll complain--
Oh, for the love of lost muse--
Like the fisherman's
Fish hailed aristocracy
My loss plights ecstasy
Hit the 'Save' button.