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So You Want To Write
Let's start big - imagine the universe
What would a nebula explosion feel like?
Go on - you can go there!
But someone's there before you.
There's life in the earth the closer
You look - it comes writhing to the surface.
So get writing! On the other hand
Don't bother. There's nothing new for you to say,
Sorry about that. So if you
Still want to write, it'll feel like
Setting off for a remote place
By the sea or half-way up a mountain
Where all the people go to get away from each other.
Which was nicely put, wasn't it?
It could even be called 'poetic'.
Have I put you off? That's right I want to put you off -
I can't stand the competition. Oh
And one more thing: if you do write
(and only do it if you must
you don't know what might come out)
Please don't read aloud in that monotonous drone
Or in that sing-song, up-down voice
Poets use to read their stuff in public,
Spare me that. Thank you for listening, I'm off now
- I feel a poem crunching up the drive, headlights glaring.
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