Friday, February 12, 2010

I can always dream

Okay, just start writing, that's the key. No need to decided what to write, just push the keys and if that doesn't work, push some more and eventually you'll start making sense, because, I mean, you do know words and how to put one after another and you keep doing that and they begin to say something even if it doesn't make much sense, it is writing and it counts as being creative because you are creating, putting some thing where there used to be nothing so that kind of makes you a functioning adult and your not wasting your time. You are stroking the muse, tickling her funny bone, pleading, if you will or if you won't, then humbly putting the sacrifice of words before her, hoping she won't laugh in your face, send you away with your tail between your legs. No you will stand before her. You will proclaim your writeitude, your place besides the pantheon, maybe not very hi up, not yet, but you can dream and Johnny Carson may not be around but Charley Rose is, isn't he? You can be on his show, slowly take a sip of your water and say, "Yes, Charley. It is humbling." You talk haltingly, struggling to find the right words, thinking to yourself how much easier it is on the page and you smile to yourself knowing the audience is wondering, who is this dolt. He wrote that? And you tell Charley, "You know I flunked English on a regular basis in high school." and you hope that bastard who flunked you twice is watching, squirming in his chair, because you know he can't admit he flunked you. Twice. He can't admit it because it wold prove what little depth he had. And you look at Charley and say that all you can say is it's really great and an honor to be there and you don't even have to mention your beautiful wife that all those jock and cool people from school have seen in the papers and on the news and sitting with you when you won you Oscar for best original screenplay and now it's up on a shelf in the closet with the others and you look at Charley and tell him all in all, you can't complain. It been a good life. And you sit back in you chair and Charley looks at the camera and says its time to take a break but stay tuned because he knows you'll want to hear more from our celebrated author who's come all the way from his villa on the Isle of Capri to be on are show.

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