Un Original

from Out With Lanterns

If I don’t have anything to say,
should I say nothing at all? 
They say no art is truly original.
They say too many of us are out here 
tossing matter into the ether. 
I say Who cares and Shut up. 
Weren’t we put here to create? 
Do not worry. I will always
sit in the pitch black room 
and scrawl before I sleep 
because what else is there to do? 
My best habit is stringing together
letter after letter after letter–
to see what the stitching creates.

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