Found Poem

So You Want To Be A Writer 

if it doesn't come bursting out of you            
in spite of everything,                 
don't do it.                            
unless it comes unasked out of your     
heart and your mind and your mouth      
and your gut,                           
don't do it.                            
if you have to sit for hours                 
staring at your computer screen              
or hunched over your               
typewriter                         
searching for words,                    
don't do it.                            
if you're doing it for money or              
fame,                                   
don't do it.                            
if you're doing it because you want          
women in your bed,                      
don't do it.                            
if you have to sit there and                 
rewrite it again and again,                  
don't do it.                            
if it's hard work just thinking about doing it,   
don't do it.                            
if you're trying to write like somebody      
else,                                   
forget about it.                        
if you have to wait for it to roar out of         
you,                               
then wait patiently.                    
if it never does roar out of you,            
do something else.                      

if you first have to read it to your wife         
or your girlfriend or your boyfriend         
or your parents or to anybody at all,        
you're not ready.                       

don't be like so many writers,          
don't be like so many thousands of           
people who call themselves writers,     
don't be dull and boring and            
pretentious, don't be consumed with self-         
love.                                   
the libraries of the world have              
yawned themselves to               
sleep                                   
over your kind.                    
don't add to that.                      
don't do it.                            
unless it comes out of                  
your soul like a rocket,                
unless being still would                
drive you to madness or                 
suicide or murder,                      
don't do it.                            
unless the sun inside you is                 
burning your gut,                       
don't do it.                            

when it is truly time,                       
and if you have been chosen,            
it will do it by                             
itself and it will keep on doing it          
until you die or it dies in you.             
there is no other way.                  

and there never was.                    

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