8.29.17

Hemingway says

to write, all you have

to do is sit at the typewriter

and bleed. I’ve not found

this to be true. I write with

a pink pregnancy back brace

wrapped around my midsection

because my lower vertebrae are

giving out. I sit for hours

and nothing happens,

no genius

no blood.

And I don’t use a typewriter.

I have two that are defunct;

there’s a metaphor in there

somewhere.

Written at 11:26 at night, in my office, in Agoura Hills CA.