Dear Reader, I Dream of You
The Author
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Here I am, so many years later I am not ashamed of what I write, or the next day, as I am now Of what I read of myself The book has taken on a life of its own Three years on and a little longer still Dear reader, I dream of you Slow water in a land without rain But the realer you are the farther into fiction I sink What can be born into a world of shame You cannot walk in one dimension And fiction is no cemetery No one will read something you don't believe in So you do what you must, you must what you do I've divided myself into two A cut across worlds The author and the narrator While they can't face each other They can intuit each other's presence, a kind of correspondence And me in the middle, fully exposed Which feels ugly because it's true I press on Because if I don't, who will Is the refrain I keep returning to To which I turn myself The noise in my eyes is now deafening and even if I try to wave away the noise Still deafening I've no other choice I refuse to live in a culture that values attention over significance A culture predictably trending toward a singularity when 'art' and 'ad' will share no distinction When artists become self-obsessed ambulatory advertisements of themselves Who create content, not art, as quickly as possible To be liked or followed Even though that's what I'm doing now You are not artists you cartoon gurus And there is nothing authentic about instructing people how to live their lives When behind the screen you're no better than the rest of us Being liked by screen addicts is not an accomplishment I want to scream but instead I say this to myself, indoors, in silence, to no one Another moon, another morning spent wondering when So tell me what choice do I have Participate in a world I have no interest in Or remain king of the world on my hefty throne of yawn Mic in hand, Ableton recording I want to stand tall and soliloquize my torments I want to ask Who will be the heroes, the real artists, in our seizured new world Who will rip rhapsodic and speak out of line when all incentives point to promoting the line I'd love to be the one, a new kind of literary hero, romantically rooted in the past Yet relevant now But I don't know how To break through and make myself heard I'm losing hope, I don't have faith Literature is dead Nobody reads But still--if I imagine a world where I can't write Or--imagine a world in which what I've written won't be read Because no one will care to read it A world fast approaching I would inhale all the drugs and never wake up I guess that's my fight, it's why I'm here on this metaphorical stage I'm no poet, no hero, I offer nothing new, no original ideas I stand crooked and crippled on the shoulders of giants But maybe I can remind you of something you've forgotten Perhaps that's my contribution It's embarrassing for me to say this I want to sound more intelligent, be less direct, less obvious I want to be your philosopher king and in one clean stanza deliver you from stupidity But I'm not and I can't Words do mean something In fact they mean everything in a world where everyone has a say Will you take me in your hands, earmark the pages, write in the margins I hope that my failure to be original, to be a serious author To say nothing of my failure to be a good person Can serve as a model for serving no model at all Write or perish Read or abort Save yourself from feeling incapable Perhaps it's the ultimate act of service An antidote to universal deafness If you want your voice to matter Do yourself a favor Do us all And shut the f*ck up It's better to say nothing until you have something to say
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