Thursday, April 25, 2019

Watching Myself Live

How I love my pleasant occupation
of writing—always a clean slate, never
knowing what I’ll end up saying! Who’s there
to say something in the first place? Knock on
the ice-etched window pane, peep in through the
shutters. There you see the ego at bay,
nursing its wounds and buffing its limbs. It
dimly understands it’s a beautiful
animal, with a bent towards beauty—an
eagerness about the loving regard
of others—with so much always left unsaid—
unsaid, because, what would mother say?
I don’t want to say either Fuck you or
I love you, just let the writing happen.