{"id":1013,"date":"2012-10-25T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themrscaseyann.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/25\/a-wednesday-evening-poem-for-you"},"modified":"2012-10-25T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T01:00:00","slug":"a-wednesday-evening-poem-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrscaseyann.com\/?p=1013","title":{"rendered":"A poem on Wednesday evening"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a>sometimes i get away from writing. writing about things i love, impressions i have or just simply reasoning something out. lately, i’ve felt motivated again to draw things out again through writing. i think in life i go through seasons of how i express things. at the moment, it has been a time of practicing to draw things out verbally (hello getting married!).\u00a0it’s been so good to continually become excellent at communicating with james (and obviously others), but it truly takes practice! but like i said, i feel like writing again.<\/div>\n
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the best advice as an english major i ever received from a professor (or anyone in fact) was so simple, it’s stupid. she said, sit down..and write. don’t outline it. don’t think too hard. write!\u00a0put your fingers to the keyboard, pen to your pad and write away.\u00a0at first, i felt so silly just writing away, scribbling away my sometimes disconnected ideas and passions. but over time, i realized that it was the only way for me to begin. everything else came out too calculated.<\/p>\n

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when i came across this poem, i felt a similar encouragement.<\/div>\n
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so you want to be a writer<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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by Charles Bukowski<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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if it doesn\u2019t come bursting out of you<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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in spite of everything,<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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don\u2019t do it.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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unless it comes unasked out of your<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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heart and your mind and your mouth<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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and your gut,<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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don\u2019t do it.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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if you have to sit for hours<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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staring at your computer screen<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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or hunched over your<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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typewriter<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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searching for words,<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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don\u2019t do it.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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if you\u2019re doing it for money or<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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fame,<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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don\u2019t do it.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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if you\u2019re doing it because you want<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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women in your bed,<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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don\u2019t do it.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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if you have to sit there and<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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rewrite it again and again,<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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don\u2019t do it.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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if it\u2019s hard work just thinking about doing it,<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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don\u2019t do it.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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if you\u2019re trying to write like somebody<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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else,<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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forget about it.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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if you have to wait for it to roar out of<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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you,<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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then wait patiently.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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if it never does roar out of you,<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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do something else.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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if you first have to read it to your wife<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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or your girlfriend or your boyfriend<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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or your parents or to anybody at all,<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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you\u2019re not ready.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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don\u2019t be like so many writers,<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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don\u2019t be like so many thousands of<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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people who call themselves writers,<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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don\u2019t be dull and boring and<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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pretentious, don\u2019t be consumed with self-<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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love.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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the libraries of the world have<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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yawned themselves to<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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sleep<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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over your kind.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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don\u2019t add to that.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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don\u2019t do it.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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unless it comes out of<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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your soul like a rocket,<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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unless being still would<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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drive you to madness or<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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suicide or murder,<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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don\u2019t do it.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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unless the sun inside you is<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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burning your gut,<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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don\u2019t do it.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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when it is truly time,<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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and if you have been chosen,<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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it will do it by<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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itself and it will keep on doing it<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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until you die or it dies in you.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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there is no other way.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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and there never was.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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