Over the course of a month lots of ideas get tested & abandoned. Several lines in this poem were previously homeless yet coagulated into this one. As for the Poetic Factoid Poem — Warning. There’s a big *BIG* TRIGGER WARNING on this one for people who don’t feel/think they’re as old as they really are.
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Lord of the Fools
dirt beneath my nails
clawing the claybanks
for your return
dream of trees
a lifetime to learn
the dead do not
dance back to life
on the whim
of a lonely man
a mere heart beat
to make it proof
can’t craft the words
the way my brain feels them
impossible imposter
need to learn another language
to remember how to speak my own
lost days
try drowning myself
in every river
but even there i’m evicted
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Day 22 — TIL something deeply disturbing about the Lord of the Rings films
the Lord of the Wrinkles
i. meme
read a brutal meme
today which said
Viggo Mortensen
is the same age
Ian McKellen was
when he played
Gandalf.
NO, I AM NOT OKAY
I CANNOT POET
ANY MORE TODAY
SORRY! GOODBYE!!
ii. data
naturally, being a fool
i had to check
the veracity
of cursed meme
— turns out
it’s even worse
Aragorn’s older
than Gandalf
was at the end
of Return of the King!
time for a cuppa & a lie down
Principal photography 11 October 1999 — 22 December 2000
with pick-up shots done from 2001 to 27 June 2003.
Viggo born October 20, 1958 (current age 64)
45 when started filming, 49 when finished
Ian born 25 May 1939 (current age 83)
60 when started filming, 64 when finished
gareth roi poet boi 