to be a writer/to write

What it is to be a Writer:

hashtag your emotions

photograph your best side

tweet edited version of your day in less than 180 letters

post where you’ll be in ten minutes (even if you never make it there)

photograph your face as though you have forgotten what it looks like

tell at least ten people to LIKE you on computer screen

go where you can be seen

 

What it is to Write:

say no to things in order to ink your thoughts down

unzip, bleed, stain every desk and floorboard with the pulled-apart bones of your language

eat to nourish brain and give self an opportunity to break (though without photographic documentation)

cry: give away salt to every sentence and/or stanza

feel enlightened and melancholy simultaneously

lose your fingerprints from all the splinters born off pages you turn because one must read in order to write

go on a hike, rather than online in order to inhale the earth that inspires these words

be alone A LOT, but in doing so you learn WHO you are and WHY you must��live as this

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