How Many Writers

First make sure you are a writer

It may hurt a lot

Even if you write every day

Just ask any honest typist or typer

You need at least one other reader

to become a writer

If you are about one percent of Shakespeare

You are a writer

Shakespeare was God’s writer

Some consider the Bard was God

Remember to acquire a lightbulb

A new one is usually smarter

Select the right socket

Call your muse for help

unless she is dead

If your muse is a man

You are not a writer

But Shakespeare was a man

Are you sure about that

Some scholars demonstrated

Shakespeare was a woman

If your muse is a plant

You better water her more than often

Even if she is a cactus

The only other animal that can be a muse

Is a female cat

Meow for that

Or a female river otter

For this one I am still a plotter

One writer then

One muse as well

How many writers

Does it take to change a lightbulb

Two

One to unscrew the bad lightbulb from the socket

and sit to write about it

One to screw the new lightbulb into the socket

get a coffee and then write about it

The muse is a muse

She does not help with her hands