Today I was driving in my car, looking at my notepad shoved without care corner of a page bent spirals grasped for life on the edge of that dive.
I thought that I felt I wanted to write, but the glass inside my head was empty. Forcing it full just causes it to break, and so I wait for it to fill, fill, fill, overflow and capsize.
It comes suddenly:
a stroke in the section of the brain that biologists have yet to identify.
a phone ringing at three thirty-eight in the morning.
a cat leaping from behind the corner, hitching a momentary ride on your calf.
a rush of amniotic fluid from a pregnant woman's crotch as she stands over smooth tile.
How many pens have come apart in your mouth? How much redblueblackgreen ink have you ingested in these pen-cap chew moments of inspiration, trying to steer without looking, shift with only *******, scribble without seeing, glances from concerned motorists in adjacent lanes.
How many slips of napkins notepads envelopes bills book covers receipts skin have you marked in fits of...