How To Become A Writer — 1/N
You make boats out of words
and drop them in the sea of stories.
The boats sink, one after the other,
water sneaks in through the spaces —
a rivulet through O, tiny streams snaking
through your countless a’s & b’s —
until the seabed has turned into
a deathbed of your unworthy words,
a cemetery of your early attempts,
teeming with wrecked boats of clichés,
your words lost in water like silt
from a river, making the sea saline enough
for your words to never sink, but swim,
even backfloat, with no need of a boat.
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