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Jaime Fradera
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Where no tyranny is tolerable

0 posted 2008-01-13 09:48 PM


The Eternal Question

Anybody out there have an antidote
a suggestion, or a palliative
for the malady of Writer's Cramp?
I believe this is inherited from care-takers
who told us to shut up when we were little ...
What more might others want to read of me?
I want to believe I still possess
a reservoir of creativity within.
(as I believe each of us does)
If only I could converse with my own thoughts
or with others who may want to know
what things I maybe take for granted,
and perhaps don't even think about.
There is the buzz inside my head,
thoughts and pillow fantasies
chasing each other in perpetual trialog
But that might be too personal;
I'm not sure if that would be suitable material ...
There is the office girl,
who's unwarranted attentions
I am making token effort to ignore,
yet at the same time bring me hope.
And wondering: what could she possibly want with me? ...
There is the busy work I am supposed to do.
But what dispassionate reader
would want to read of such trivial minutia?
My well seems, for the moment, low,
or rather, I am afraid to reveal it on this forum.
my nocturnal dreams
have been too few,
too fragmentary to relate.
There is the unending curiosity sighted people have
for the details of how we do common things,
like maybe walking around.
This question probably has no answer,
and this problem no solution.
I can only write about
how there isn't anything to write about.
(Well, there is, maybe,
but I am wary and hesitate ...)
I wish that I could turn on the flow
the inexhaustible well,
find the everlasting flow of wine
in the luxury apartment of my dream,
and the shimmering, creative muse
who loves me there.
(well, actually, it's on ...
But if I were to post my pillow fantasies
of lush and naked love in my enchanted arms,
of rolling, flushing waves of pleasure----
What might she say if I were to ask her?
How long would it take
for that post to be removed?
(But that is just a self-involved skull game in my head).
Patience? ...
For now, I guess,
I must occupy myself with relative nonsense
in the mean time.

[This message has been edited by Ron (01-14-2008 09:39 AM).]

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1 posted 2008-01-14 08:22 AM


"There is the buzz inside my head,
thoughts and pillow fantasies
chasing each other in perpetual trialog"

What a great line! Trialog, a new word!

JamesMichael
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2 posted 2008-01-14 04:13 PM


I say write all of those things you want to write and if you consider any of them to be too brash or intimate to post here, at least you have released your thoughts, dreams and desires...believe me, there are some that I wrote but didn't post because I consider them too risque, or personal, or harsh...James
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