Breaking The Block

Tell it
to vomit a little
See where that takes you

Tell it
you can hear music
it needs to describe

Write / discard
paint / discard
sculpt / discard
compose / discard
then smile
when it tells you
to knock that shit off 
and save a little something…then

discard some more

Get with a partner
and ding the paint a little
Got a cliff?  
Jump off
Tell the thing
to fly piss fuck
off

Rename yourself
then remain yourself
with a ream of paper and
blood crayons

Forget about it 
Knuckle drag a week around
Club your foot into submission
Blah Blah Blah a college course
Masticate masturbate 
Make up a word and 
Manchurate then
define it for us

Christ,
if you absolutely have to

Drop a little acid 
if after all that
you still can’t make it work —
I know a guy

Just
for the sake of crisis
stop writing 600 word epic posts
notes and updates
letters to old mentors
and essays
about how you can’t
write
anymore

Because the block
is a ghost
only as strong as 
your belief in it
The truth is
all you’ve got is a bad case
of hating your results

so do the art you are meant to do
toss what you hate

you will get there
and if not?

do the art anyway
for the love of process and 
self