An Author’s Regret

Wit woven and intermittent on paper

Hours owning a prickling pen in hand 

Revision, re-take, rewrite - time wasted on how to shape "her" 

The missing masterpiece, the babbling baby, the dark demand. 

Hours owning a prickling pen in hand 

Unreal voices vexing me - understand? 

The missing masterpiece, the babbling baby, the dark demand

Threatens to overthrow my complacently creative mentally limp land. 

Unreal voices vexing me - understand 

Driving and dribbling me ballsy 'cross court; pressure and pain - insane 

Threatens to overthrow my complacently creative mentally limp land 

Uncouthly killing my deep desire to do what I love because I can.

I push past pressure and pain. 

Wit woven and intermittent on paper

My wife, The Pen, I go now to rape her

Revision, re-take, rewrite - time wasted on how to shape her.