inspiration:
"The creative person is both more primitive & more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person."
-Frank Barron
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a poet falls in love
and counts the number of freckles
on both of their love's arms
just to write those numbers
in the margins of the notebooks
that they use to write desperate poems
about everything that they feel
an artist falls in love
and documents the exact patterns in which
their love tosses and turns
each night
that they can't sleep
and paints the love in the positions that they think
make them look the most beautiful
just to feel accomplished
when they look through their sketchbooks
a songwriter falls in love
and cleverly disguises the lyrics about their love
behind sly metaphors
and complicated phrases
so the love will never know that they're hearing
about themselves
when the songs get sung to them
through shaking teeth
and stuttering fingers
moving feverishly across old instruments
the creative person
focuses on the details
instead of the surface from far away
just to document what they find
and it becomes an obsession
drives them mad
because they're too focused
on what they'll next use
to fill their notebooks
