This Thing Called ‘Writer’s Block’
By Tom Mach

It’s sort of like lying on your couch watching
TV while the guilt of not writing comes running
through your brain at full gallop
and ideas pounce into your head when you don’t even see
them coming. Isn’t that write?

I mean you go to a bookstore, blinded
by the kaleidoscope of author offerings,
and you visualize checks made out to you
with lots of zeroes at the end
and writers chauffeured in white limos
and you tingle with indignation
as you murmur “I could have written that.”
But you don’t
And never will