Someone asked the question in class yesterday
what happens if your poem isn’t good
your story either what happens if you use
wrong words the character doesn’t understand
what she’s doing or why what happens if the neighbor
never leaves his apartment in your poem
and he can’t do much that would merit
a description and his name is only Joe
what happens if you decide one day
I want to write a story
about the male prostitute in apartment 86
and you only have the first sentence of the story
His Name Is Ken what happens if all your characters
are the same height if there aren’t any children
in even one poem if you know a woman whose real
name is Eurethra but nothing really rhymes
with her real name if you want to write about a 100
year old woman but you can’t think of a name good enough
for a 100 year old woman what happens if someone says to you
at a reading: I Didn’t Like That and then clarifies in case
you misunderstood I Didn’t Like Your Reading or Your Writing
Either what happens if one day you wake up and think to yourself
not everyone likes the name Brother for a character who is
actually an Uncle and you write the story anyway. Or the poem.
I loved this poem and think I have had all of those reservation s before setting pen to paper and then lifted it up and put it back..
thank you irwin
LOVED IT. that is what happens!!!! thanks so much dear esther, for writing this poem no matter what!
dear margot: what happens. yes. xxxxxxx