Saturday, January 19, 2019

4000 Gaps Valentine

There’s a wide gap
Between the inspiration
And the eventual text
 
What gets written down
Is never what it
Started out to be
 
This quickening
Of the writer as he writes
His inaccurate report
 
Of what has a life of its own
Struggling under the writer’s hand
To be born or borne
 
When if he was truly inspired
He would not need
To be writing at all
 

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