How to Write

Be timeless but not dull. Find a reference point, a place of connection between your voice and the blank page  (or a screen maybe, sure) and a stranger's eyes and tickle it, twist it, paint it, take it for all it's worth. Grieve the metaphor, celebrate the rhythm, use the alliteration in your flirting. Build a context for yourself and destroy it again and appreciate how there is always a nothing to appreciate. . Consider how even the dances that honor death are about being alive, leave a trail of breadcrumbs that bring you back to laughter, compose something you pray will outlive you. I am tears and letter, characters, a symbol on a typewriter key and a word that has ten different meanings like a sign. Be the arrow that points toward you but never the thing you're pointing at, because fluidity is necessary for being, otherwise you simply were.