Interpretive Dance

If you read a lot about writers,
You’ll discover a mental habit
Of thinking as if you were writing,

Observantly, about a writer’s
Habits when writing about writers.
You’ll figuratively kick yourself.

No one is out there, now, wondering
What you have to say around midnight
About this or that other writer,

Although, given you have existed,
There must be many others like you,
Writers unbeknownst to each other

Who are sitting up late nights to wonder
About the small thoughts of great writers.