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2title: A real writer
3genre: verse
4
5id: real-writer
6toc: "A real writer"
7
8project:
9 title: Autocento of the breakfast table
10 class: autocento
11...
12
13| Sometimes I feel as though I am not a real writer.
14| [I don't smoke][]. I don't wake up early but I don't sleep
15| all day either. I find myself increasingly interested
16| in dumb luck. Chance: I've found two dimes in as many
17| days. Does this mean I've found twenty lucky pennies?
18| I want you to participate. You the reader. You,
19| the probabilistic god of my dreams. I've been having
20| [strange dreams][] lately. I don't remember them but
21| they leave impressions. A bare foot. A tunnel
22| of hair from her face to mine. A boat stranded
23| in a living-room. Something warm. Something like the sun
24| through my eyelids. [A hand, with all its dead symbology][].
25| [My teeth have fallen out][]. No, you pulled them out
26| with your hands, threw them over your left shoulder
27| [like salt][], to wish away bad luck. I have something
28| to tell you: bad luck follows like a dog. It lets you
29| get ahead for a few days, a week, a year. You'll see,
30| it'll bite your sleeping face when you're not looking.
31| I've been dreaming about the future, I know. In my dream
32| I am not a writer, [I live in a place with rain][]. You
33| are sunning yourself as you read this, on a beach or
34| maybe a desert. Let me move in with you. I can cook
35| [or clean][] or take care of your dog while you're out.
36| I'll never have to write again. [I'll watch television][].
37| Do I want to become a writer? Tell me. Should I smoke?
38| I can sleep all day in your attic if you want, become
39| [your god][], lose my own, settle to the bottom of the bed
40| like a boat in a river, dream about nothing but [furniture][].
41
42[I don't smoke]: cereal.html
43[strange dreams]: in-bed.html
44[A hand, with all its dead symbology]: roughgloves.html
45[My teeth have fallen out]: no-nothing.html
46[like salt]: i-am.html
47[I live in a place with rain]: riptide_memory.html
48[or clean]: when-im-sorry-i.html
49[I'll watch television]: about-the-author.html
50[your god]: love-as-god.html
51[furniture]: leaf.html