This Russell Edson prose poem can serve as one of the best lessons for anyone who wants to be a writer. Keep your writing to yourself! The last thing you want to do is share your writing with your family, especially if you are living with your family. Such sharing can only come to a VERY bad end.
A MAN WHO WRITES
A man had written head on his forehead, and hand on each hand, and foot on each foot.
His father said, stop stop stop, because the redundancy is like having two sons, which is two sons too many, as in the first instance which is one son too many.
The man said, may I write father on father?
Yes, said father, because one father is tired of bearing it all alone.
Mother said I'm leaving if all these people come to dinner.
But the man wrote dinner all over the dinner.
When dinner was over father said to his son, will you write belch on my belch?
The man said, I will write God bless everyone on God.
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