a cup of coffee
in a mushroom shaped cup
the blue blinking light
of a computer waking up
the blank, placid stare
of a new document open
the cursor lazily waiting for something
new to be placed onto the page
the words that were meant to be
in the spotlight on the stage
they line up in my brain one at a time
I don’t choose the words
they come out in a rhyme
its hard being a vessel
sometimes you forget your place
you try to be a human living
on a rock hurtling through space
friends and family and events take over
all the while the cursor blinks slower
but when I DO find my way back to the page
the words flow easily
as if they were trying to wage
a war against the corporeal
the ethereal and the word that’s mum
taking control of their own sort of drum
humming a tune that, to which, only other eyes can dance
giving the one that wrote it a chance
to shapeshift into something simultaneously less and more
this is how writing and being a writer is born
keep typing until your keyboard has worn
- E. Lexi Abbott
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E. Lexi Abbott 