As long as you read this poem I will be writing it. I am writing it here and now, before your eye, although you can't see me. Perhaps you'll dismiss this as a verbal trick, the joke is you're wrong; the real trick is pretending this is something fixed and solid, external to both of us. I tell you better: I will keep on writing this poem for you even after I'm dead.

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As long as you read this poem
I will be writing it.
I am writing it here and now,
before your eye,
although you can't see me.
Perhaps you'll dismiss this as a verbal trick,
the joke is you're wrong;
the real trick
is pretending this is something
fixed and solid,
external to both of us.
I tell you better:
I will keep on
writing this poem for you even after I'm dead.

Alden Nowlan

Authors Bio:

Josh Mitteldorf, de-platformed senior editor at OpEdNews, blogs on aging at http://JoshMitteldorf.ScienceBlog.com. Read how to stay young at http://AgingAdvice.org.

Educated to be an astrophysicist, he has branched out from there to mathematical modeling in a variety of areas, including evolutionary ecology and economics. He has taught mathematics, statistics, and physics at several universities. He is an avid amateur pianist, and father of two adopted Chinese girls, now grown. He travels to Beijing each year to work with a lab studying the biology of aging. His book on the subject is "Cracking the Aging Code", http://tinyurl.com/y7yovp87.