Lettering

8th March 2012

Shall I write in loops and twirls, Shall I print with not a curl in any form of letters a, b, y - or any Greek letters that look like ‘i’, shall I write with a curve on my t’s, f’s q’s or might I keep them straight, the way I choose. Should I dot my i’s and define my z’s or is it ‘zed’ - whatever you please, for silence is a virtue rarely found in the encryption of cursive, in the fine lines of print - if I write again in curls, if I kern the font that I just wrote, if I scratch my letters across a pad, or type them as I once had on an old fashioned typewriter with letters Q W E R T Y where the P and the A proved hard to press, & every day I must confess, shifting the paper left to right so once again I could type, to the left to bereft & I wrote, but forgot to hold down shift. I yanked out the paper, whipped it over, drew on the back a four-leaf-clover, once I dipped my pen in its bottle of ink, I didn’t again have to think, as I went back to the loops and curls that lift my head in less than a whirl. x.