We know it's presumptuous to write, as presumptuous as it is to read,
but we'd rather be the hammer AND the nail, and so do both.
We know people read toothpaste tubes—and that
fiction readers read about characters reading toothpaste tubes.
We know that details are fascinating and adjectives describing them aren't.
We know that the true hits harder than the clever.
We know that the clever screws the true into the ear better.
We know that everyone loves a villain and just puts up with a hero.
We know that it's all been said before, but so have
"I love you" "I hate you" "Please" "Thank you" and "Pass the mustard",
phrases that must be said again and again for culture to go on--and so too books
must be written.
We know that to write something good it's helpful to be inspired by something bad.
We know that to write something bad doesn't necessarily mean we won't get published.
We know that our psyches contain insights, predilections, fallacies and truths
that fan from the universal to the obscure, and that there are enough readers
in the world to appreciate every segment.
We know that everyone has something important to share, but not everyone
wants to write it and some are imprisoned by language—unsure
whether to "breach" or "bridge" the gap or whether a semicolon, colon, dash or comma
will work best in this sentence at this moment.
Here is a thing we don't know:
Why even loving our miraculously alive families
can be like ploughing the ocean down to the sea bed where our keyboards and pens lie waiting
for our touch.
M Lucky Gold
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