Poets Chronicle the Writer's Block

By Sean Michael Benhabib, published Jan 17, 2006
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Writer's block. It's cute, informative. I care a lot about many things but have nothing to say about any of them that has not been said already, and if I do it'll come across as winy. It's just an experiment really; the process, processes. It's nowhere near.

How long will it take to get there? Where is it? What'll happen on the way? Annoying. Hah hah hah ah ah ah. Anger, and these of course are the qualities: anger, annoyance, cuteness. They are the qualities in a writer's block. Smart, very smart; ah, another one. How many can we find? Cute.

To where I go I do not know. It better be good. This is somebody's time. Which? Let's see, I have smart, cute, annoyance, and anger. The smart part of me is the one who likes to keep things whole, which makes me cute, annoying, and angry. Outside, I've got nail clippers at my desk, in the bathroom, and in my car so that I don't bite my nails anymore. It's a quirk. It's a symbol. It's something that exemplifies these qualities. This is really remedial: cute, smart, annoying, maybe a little bit of anger. Of course, their could be some astonishment; astonishment, annoyance, smartness, cuteness, and anger, some anger. The processes are very difficult, but I am starting to get to a point: quirks.

Nail clippers for stations
vegetables, fruit, red meat; in that order
failing to beat a dead horse, which I am quite proud of peculiarly

To build a story around quirks! To let them be the deciding factors in what may or may not happen, a whole chain. Usually, there is one.

More quirks:

Organization, this is commitment folks. It doesn't happen like this usually. Most people just run with it, or they do it on the fly. It just happens.

Schizophrenic, or is everything out of the I? Commitment folks, who? HOO, I am an owl. My neck is, gosh I don't know that word. 10:43 a.m Monday, December 19, 2005. Where's a biologist when you need one? 10:47 a.m. The search continues. It's a frenzy. Why? Because it can't be empty. If I proceed without knowing what the term is for being able to swivel the head about it's axis at 360 degrees, I will take it very personally as a sign that I do not have mine. 10:51, this could take hours, days.

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