Saturday, April 18, 2026

Self-inspection

 

When I reach the end will I regret having spent my life writing?  What end did I expect?  Was this a quest for something?  A search for purpose?  Will I have wasted my life playing with inactive verbs and mannequin nouns? 

I have turned thoughts into images, ideas into stories, all the time, not even once, riding a seahorse or taking an active part in anything requiring sunscreen.  I have wiggled my fingers above this keyboard as if they knew what they were doing.  Planting words and spreading commas like fertilizer.  Believing things would grow while I remained just an onlooker, sitting along the sidelines watching the sprinkler rotate back and forth. 

Always missing were the sound effects.  With any luck the last thing I ever write will be…

 

Ta Daaa…

 

 

 

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