2022/1/25 #poetry I would like to write about important things. If other people are to read them, that is. I'm much more agreeable to writing complete nonsense if it's just for me. I can really get into writing something profoundly obvious just for the fun of typing and stringing words together that sound neat. I can entertain myself by making word salad. Those long runs of empty phrases that all but cancel each other out or serve to introduce merely the beginning of an idea that something is about to be said. I really like the rhyming phrase plug in drug. I think quite often about the addictive qualities of screens and the myriad addictive flickers they display. Almost all the screens flicker, you see. They count the flickers in Hz. Too fast to notice for the most part, but some people get headaches or other odd symptoms due to the particular frequency of some flickers. I have the unfortunate affect of falling asleep under the glow of certain tube fluorescents. Makes classes much more difficult than they should be. It can be a nice feeling if I'm not resisting it. A very pleasant tiredness. Spooky, as it was very hard to pinpoint what the cause was. Most people aren't affected so it isn't well known. Once I figured it out, tracking down information about it was not easy, and that's with the benefit of the internet. I did get what I was looking for eventually after much effort and it changed my life. I now have a remedy for the issue. Turn off the light, leave the room, or introduce a similarly or more powerful light with a steady glow to fill in the gaps. If only we could find a frequency that effected us in a positive way. The first step to create a plug in drug that didn't serve content. How things would change.