The Academia Game

Caught into the whirlpool of Abstract Mode.

She was writing abstracts for work,

for admission to conferences

for competitions and exhibitions.

Became so abstracted that

she became very good at writing these paragraph length

bite size chunks of research

concentrated information.

She forgot how to write deep,  

how to write long

and how to write wide.

She is in the research zone

but so far away from a conclusion of any kind,

a standing up stance of any sort

or a side to come down on.

She is with it

but running to catch up

collecting seeds of information

all useful stuff

and gathering it into her research basket,

only to throw it away over her shoulder as she moves on to other seeds.

Jumping to catch a glimpse over a tall crowd of authors and thinkers

She thinks she is getting it

but is it just the foot

of an elephant?

image: wiki commons , the Walk of Ideas Berlin.