The Pretender
A writer is not a character,
a character can't be the writer.
My way is to bring the characters in,
collect, observe and hold them.
Some wear hats, some false hair,
some flaunt their thinning heads.
Being a character is difficult.
There are expectations to live up to.
Being a writer is easier.
Just empty yourself every night,
and fill yourself up with the world,
like an ashtray at the party,
hunted and poured into by many,
lovingly washed only by the host.
Comments
but you're contradicting yourself, no?
mr b: thanks. how am i contradicting myself?
As Nietzsche writes, 'Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood. Write with blood, and thou wilt find that blood is spirit.'