Writing and My Cat
Why I Write
I write to feed the monkeys building campfires in my brain. They prefer words over marshmallows.
I write to stimulate my caudate nucleus.
I write to make sense of the nonsensical and understand the incomprehensible.
I write to organize, arrange, reorganize, and rearrange my thoughts which resist all efforts of organization and arrangement.
I write because I believe in the impossible.
I write because not writing is impossible.
I write to believe in the possible especially when it feels impossible.
I write because spoken words evaporate.
I write because written words are quiet.
I write so I can sleep.
I write so I have a reason not to sleep.
I write because the days are long and the nights longer.
I write because I am old and have things to say, or I think I do.
I write because no one listens when I speak.
I write to feel immortal.
I write because I am not immortal and words are.
I write because my grandchildren think the things I write are cool — now — and they won’t later.
I write because my favorite dead people wrote.
I write because my father should have and didn’t.
I write because I know things you don’t.
I write because I don’t know many things but figure them out as I write.
I write because TV sucks.
I write because I can only read for a limited time without feeling like a failure for not writing whatever I’m reading.
I write because one day I’ll die.
I write because I live.
I write because I deal with numbers all day and words are more fun.
I write because words are amazing and phrases are amazinger.
I write so I can make up words and phrases and a lot of other shit.
I write to shine light in the darkness.
I write to hide.
I write to expose.
I write to conceal.
I write to remember.
I write to be who I am and who I am not.
I write not to cry.
I write because I cry.
I write so you will read.
I write in spite of knowing you will read.
I write because the voices in my head tell me to.
I write to shut up the voices in my head.
I write because my cat tells me to and he knows more than anyone.