Your Instructions: Write Everywhere

Writing all over the place is a necessary step.

Notes on napkins and missives on memo board.

Take your favorite pen or any instrument that makes a mark,

being particularly careful to leave nothing unwritten.

When your ink has touched the walls and the bed linens,

arms and ankles,

the world may deem you crazed.

Not so.

You are a creator whose handiwork has bridged the gap between reality and fantasy.

Scripted lines across the floor in chalk

that people stoop and stretch at weird angles to read,

about how you lost you felt

when my image disappeared through the departure gate bound for the busy city.

I couldn’t understand your refusal when I so wanted you to join me.

But you had unfinished surfaces calling out at all hours for felt-tips

and feelings that could not keep waiting if they tried.

Late nights and early mornings find those on fire with passion still writing

as if the words will exhaust themselves before finishing what we need to say.

There’s loads of paper here.

Yet I succumb to feeling adrift,

without an ounce of furniture in my new apartment,

already missing our silent midnight messages spilling over our tee-shirts

and dripping off our many moods.

I must not stop writing.

Might end up terrifying the neighbors,

so I take my Sharpie to the wall

and sink my vocabulary into a broken lease on the very first night,

and a mind soothed by sentences.

(Original publication from Scars Publications 'Down in the Dirt' Magazine, June 2021 Issue.)

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