The Method

Blue-green three-hole punched
notebook; black notebook, 
pocket-sized; big, bound
sketchbook; all unruled,
solid, ready.

All mostly empty.
More fetishes than tools.
Own the paper, be the artist.
I’m an actor.
This is criminal. 

I should steal a pen,
something richy-rich,
plated; something 
that doesn’t write well, 
doesn’t float across the page;

some small part
of this should be difficult.
Require me to put in work;
clean myself up; act right;
pick up a notebook; plunge in.