Writer's Block

In front of a computer with fingers poised

A pen floating over blank paper

The screen, the sheet glares whitely

Begging silently for the incredible words

For curvy words to flow across it

For the perfect letters to register

In the computer code

But your hands do not move

Until you give up and do something else



That block, in your head, made of solid black,

The bane of a writer's existence,

I swear it taunts, blows raspberries,

Makes you feel your ire raise

As it repeatedly reminds that

You cannot get words to form

In a slightly interesting way

A way that will be marked in history books

As well as your own of course

Author's Notes/Comments: 

I was actually writing a lot that day but anyway. Written 11/29/08

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