Poetic Excretion
the first obstacle find something that confounds you find something that spellbinds you then while pinching your nose ingest it purely digest it excrete it and examine every disgusting detail as an artist you'll understand by instinct without explanation this thing is to be examined devoid of as many ready-made hand-me-down explanations of it as you can muster as you smear and pick through it force yourself not to gag force yourself to accept the stench force yourself to understand this is the dirty work of it force yourself to examine the ruffage as critically without playing games as you can hopefully the refuse will make some sense maybe more maybe less maybe different than before but never too much so there's reason to ingest more along with something new so this time the examination might make a little more sense force yourself to accept this as the secret lonely vile and mundane sisyphean curse an artist must learn to love enough to never care to exchange it for gold coins or tender kisses
mrobins71 