i’m already well past 300 words
and i’ve gotten such good work out
for me
but not for anybody
else

maybe i should start taking old poems
and redoing them/
adjusting and rewriting
for use in a book of some kind?

i’ve now written
more than one poem every single day
for over three years now
officially 1,134 days
according to this calculator i just found
on the interwebs

let’s calculate a bit more:
i know i usually write at least three poems —
though sometimes there’s a lot more/
but sometimes i’ve skipped days to come back later
and use an unpublished poem from a previous writing session —
let’s just say it averages out to three a day
[i know this will be a low estimate]
that makes, at least 3,402 poems
[probably closer to 6,000 if we’re being honest]

[i wonder if it would be worth it
to go back and actually count
how many poems happened each day]

[that would be wild
to say
the least]

and all of this look back/calculation has helped none of the
‘i have no poem to post today’
issue…

i suppose i could post this word soup,
give the internet the knowledge
that while i post one to three poems daily
on that site, the need to write
is overwhelming sometimes,
and sometimes i just gotta write and write and write
and i guess i’ve written somewhere between 3 and 6 thousand poems
[honestly probably even more]
since i started this experiment
in april of 2021

[also, i thought it would be an
experiment that would last me a year
and here
i am…]