Thursday, September 10, 2009

"The Trouble with Dostoevsky"(or The Problem For Any Writer)

is isolation -

one author, one premise;

the illusion of being alone

in a room filled with people

and, further,

that these people are real

and the room is not

    OR

the room is real

and not the people.

At some point,

a hundred or so pages deep,

I cannot be found,

not by doorbells,

telephones, pagers, or bookmarks.

Falling asleep on the worn couch of my fancy -

that’s not so bad.

It’s rather comfy.

   

Some even

consider it noble.

The trouble comes

when I pretend

no one else has ever done it.

[Via http://iamtrapped.wordpress.com]

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