Simultaneity

Is that the problem?
Watch the memory.
A second ago

You had an idea
You can still half-feel,
A shape in your brain,

What you were about
To compose—and here
You are, trying hard

To out-race the loss
By typing faster,
Only losing more

By making errors
That require pauses
To stop and fix, but

Better to have fixed
What you have so far
Than to finished it.

Is it? You’re trying
To compose and revise
At once, which becomes

Your subject, given
The first—wait, what first?
Did you mean verse? No,

You meant the first thought
You had to write about
For this—is long gone.