Monday, August 26, 2002

why i write mostly I

why i write

mostly I want the things I do
to be means unto ends
and I shape my actions to my goals
through a myopic lens
my studies, sacrifices, dreams
are fenceposts on the path
that gauge efficiency and progress
on either side, through time
and fore and aft
but here
in the liberating confines
of the hoary virgin page
able to do here as I will
every vast horizon open
here my goal is but my action
action is unto itself
watch myself with fascination
as I blow myself off course
going where the weather wanders
this is why I love the writing
because everywhere else
I am focused to identity
doing my utmost
to justify my vanity
but here on the page
I can put it aside
and just ramble along
nothing in mind
but the rhythms of speech
I should have better discipline
were I a writer
but literary onanism’s
not yet made me blind