In Future Dream

[Manuel Tavares]

In Future Dream
By Catherine Viel
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Of the Great World he knew not much,
But his Muse let little in language escape her.
Friends sigh and say of him, poor wretch,
He was a good writer, on paper.
~Howard Nemerov, Epitaph


I just did something monumental, yet it hasn’t made much of a blip on my personal radar.

Theoretically, I have another week to undo the decision. That’s when the recycled trash will be collected, taking with it my magnum opus and all its drafts and handwritten notes, circa 1985. These papers have been living in a dusty legal-sized Redrope accordion file with a grosgrain ribbon tie for thirty-plus years.

This is so unlike me, to let go of something that used to mean so much. I once clung to these faded sheets from my long-gone dot matrix printer as proof that I was A Writer. Proof that I wrote a book, that I knew how to stick with a project from inception to completion.

The minor detail that no publisher wanted it is beside the point.+++
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