after ever

the pages are always blank

even when there is there

it is never finished

for to finish would be

to admit that

it does not go on

and every story

always does

*

there is only one

story ever told:

nothing is never happening

*

mean as it is

writing is meant to

make one meaningful

without having to mean it

*

writing is supposed

to make one feel the warmth

of the sun

without making them

burnt and raw

though it can do

that too

if you turn a page

fast enough

*

writing is

all there is

for without it

there’d be no

there is

and even less

all