I can’t be an artist,
because I am impatient.
I’m too impatient
for this paint to dry.
I couldn’t hold off
writing these
words. Too lazy
to open a new
document, and still
too careful to
leave marks of
cheap water colors
on the back side
of the last
insignificant,
anonymous sketch.
I can be an
artist, because
purple people
aren’t real. They
exist merely in
my mind. My
mind may not
be tangible, and
cannot be put
into words,
but clearly
it’s buried in my skull,
somewhere.