Be Ready To Do The Thing.

Season 3.9: This thing that pervades the act, can only come from act after act.

Find the time to get it right, 
So that you’re ready. 
Ready, when the time comes.
Ready, with a steady hand.
 
Because you spent that time 
Getting it right then, 
So you can be prepared, 
Doing it right now. 

With all of the nuance, 
That you’ve eeked between 
The accurate bits 
And essential pieces, 

To make this thing you do,
The Thing. 

This Thing, 
That pervades the act
Can only come 
From act after act. 

Until the act itself 
Is not the actual thing 
That you’ll be doing 
When the time comes, 

So do the Thing,
Again and again.

Until it comes apart at the letter, 
Until it reaches up through the line, 
Until its sound is set adrift,
Until its meaning is floating in time, 
Until it colours the blacks of your eyelids,
Until it whites the silence in your mind, 
Until you forget its very shape and form, 
Until you’ll not remember it at all. 

And in its place will grow this thing, 

This new 
And extraordinary 
And incredible
Thing, 

Formed of wondrous line 
Wired with frivolous letter, 
Renewed in extreme sensation,
Drenched in vibrant colour, 

And so full and present 
It pulls together 
The spaces 
And memories 
And smells 
And sounds 
And laughter cried,
And cries of laughter, 

All together,
Tied into this dense mass 
Of sudden evisceration, 
That will mark indelibly 
The inner most archive 
Of every mind that meets it. 

This Thing 
That you’ve done, 
This Thing,
That you did,
 
Again and again, 
So it would not matter, 
Where, 
Or how,
Or when…
 
You’d be ready. 

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Read more from Season 3…

This is the third season of Notes and Noises. If you liked this (or didn’t) why not take a quick look at some of the other posts in the series:

1. Wake Up!

2. All That I Could Do

3. Home

4. To That Tree Atop The Hill

5. On The Way Home

6. Weeds

7. Pauses

8. This Time

9. Be Ready To Do The Thing

10. Tar Isteach

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