Overheard Near Delphi

How is your ballet going?
Are you still spraying dancers
With chalk? Some people like it.

Writing seems kind of pointless.
Writing after many years
Becomes a place you can hide.

Whereas with drawing, every
Mark you make reveals yourself.
There is more of a raw thing

In words, but I can’t face that.
Dirt is matter out of place.
I borrowed that line, too. [Laughs.]

Well, that’s an accomplishment.
How nice. It doesn’t matter.