Nothing + Matters

I found this band called The Last Dinner Party. They have a track called Nothing Matters. The act of doing something like nothing matters has such polarized motives. To perform and produce the motions of an action, to bring ourselves from beginning to end out of some odd necessity is sort of dark. While doing that same activity without a care in the world is so pure. Setting aside the worries of the day, setting aside even other loves and the attention they draw, to focus intensely and give ourselves entirely to the act, is quite a release. That is how I wish to live and do what is in front of me. I hope to make a sandwich with the same passion as anything I find myself passionate about. Perhaps the amount of focus and energy is what eventually sparks creativity.

This song that this band wrote has a refrain that flips tense from future to past and then to present, the swapping of tenses is really compelling and active and sort of jumps you all over as you unravel what is happening. I really want to play with tense dynamics in my writing.

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Grammar Woes

I hear the comma
but when asked to place them
the sentence is a forest floor
thick with brush, hiding semi colons
my muscles tense or are tensing?
and my footfalls crack a branch
in conjunctions a sound behind me
sparks the hair on my neck
the thickness leads to darkness
somewhere there is another side
where I will be feeling the sun
lush of the woods behind me
future perfect continuous