there are times when
there are times
when i am
there are times when i am
times when i am there
when times i am tired
when tired of there
tired times
i am tired
of times when
i am tired of
there are times when i am
tired of when
there when
times i am of
there of tired times

this is of course a beckett kind of thing, minimalism and repetition, the suggestion of a gesture and its fractured echo, the idea being a wearing thin, polishing a gloss until it turns, again, into something else and then folding back over itself, again and again. it doesn’t work here, not with this set of words -too obvious, trivial- but it’s a germ. what i should’ve done was this first:

there are times when i am tired of
are times when i am tired of there
times when i am tired of there are
when i am tired of there are times
i am tired of there are times when
am tired of there are times when i
tired of there are times when i am
of there are times when i am tired

do a reduction, a subtraction

there are times
times when i
when i am
i am tired
am tired of
tired of there
of there are

then a little more, adding a fourth word, picking up the back half of the initial set

when i am tired of
i am tired of there
tired of there are
of there are times
there are times when
are times when i
times when i am
when i am tired

then from here, i would pick perhaps every other line from the sets above, maybe like this

there are times when i am tired of
times when i
tired of there are
when i am tired of there are times
when i am
there are times when
i am tired of there are times when
tired of there
i am tired

blech, still doesn’t work, wrong set of words for this kind of thing