There's something I love about gopher. I suppose it may be
something I love about people in general, but gopher is
the place where I see it most. Without seeming to try,
people on gopher are often poetic. Not in a structured way
generally, but in a natural, human way.

kvothe recently shared a bit about a misconstrued lyric
which stated "it takes a steady hand to navigate in open
water."[1] He went on to share a bit about the "messes"
that he is trying to steady in life. Just a few words,
filled with reality and burden and truth. But to me, they
were poetic.

I'm not always sure why I feel the way I do, but at the
particular moment I was reading that phlog, I felt a kind
of peace in the shared human/mortal experience. These
"messes of men" that he mentioned are really mundane when
you think about them- so many of us experience them- yet
that doesn't change the nature of them. That doesn't make
them easier or less painful. It just means we can hopefully
understand one another better.

I'm not an expert on the subject of poetry or humanity, but
to me taking part in that shared experience is poetic.

[1] gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/kvothe/phlog/2018/02/25-course

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