Speak, Digits

Writing on a computer is slipperier than writing by hand. What do you write? is generally considered a meatier, more important question than What do you write with or What do you write on? When I write (poems, essays, lists, dictations, things to remember…), which is often, it’s frequently in the notes section of my phone or on my computer. Attempting to think and write about this digital slipperiness is disorienting yet revealing, like trying to think about the screen as it plays a movie. Media recedes so that what it transmits can come forward, play, present itself fully. When my screen breaks, I notice it. When my hands and back ache, I realize the physical toll writing takes.