You Can’t Teach Writing

writing is something you cannot teach/ but it gives those of us who cannot write, and this mercifully includes me, a le job/ and then we are not out on the street raving and not writing/ we’re teaching your children how to write/ you either have it, or you don’t/ most don’t/ i don’t/ i would rather chew old shoes than write/ the whole idea of identity and who the audience really is; how this strange relationship becomes embedded as law where all human behavior takes place within a black and white construct as a setting is just beyond stupid, and has no relationship to reality where most human behavior comes in an assortment of stupidities, not two/ writing is simply taking the lid off, and we insert the obvious, ourselves, into what otherwise is stiff and ridiculous/ how could you possibly not know your characters when you created them, not the UPS man/ most writers think they are just following the rules 4 goodness sake there are no rules/ the whole enterprise is infused with envy and the proverbial puritan ethic which has you slogging away at it without the slightest infinitisemal hope of publication/ those of us who cannot write, teach/ and those of who can write exist on cans of tuna chicken by the sea/