The Muse Ruse

The realm of a writer in all its hanging-upside-down, face-obscured-by-the-fallen-gown, underwear-exposed-to-the-world unglory.

Sunday, November 12, 2006

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
E. L. Doctorow

I have spent this morning listening to the soft gurgling of a semicolon

I have bounced a couple of periods off the wall

A laundered sock is hanging on a comma

a field of exclamation marks stretches beyond the window

and sometimes the wind bends them into question marks

but no words come