...
This one
the shabbiness of my shoes or the sounds of city traffic,
but no, no

No

what I like about writing for my weekly homepages
on the Ellipsis website
is the chance to write publicly my most considered thoughts
in the so-called 'rough',
but to me informative, forms
in which they occur while thinking and while writing as a live process,
a record of 'what happened'

unthinkable to correct it
for that would be to falsify the record.

(Though I must admit here that the last few lines from 'as a live process' I'm inserting on re-reading just before I print it. No my theory is not watertight this is the record as near as I can make it of how it seems to me now as I write it and review it and even alter and adjust...)

So 'what are we doing?' and 'why are we doing it?'.