Amuse-bouche

You’d think you wouldn’t have to get
Away from people to compose
Texts, which are language, about them.

Language and text are people things,
Emerging from community,
Often as not collectively.

Why does so much writing begin
In escaping or ignoring
Or being ignored by others?

It’s just it’s such a selfish thing,
Writing. Language gets so hungry
To have the writers to itself.