Reading

[sanityderailed]

I pretend to write.

I read
Nalo Hopkinson
Neil Gaiman
Shay Youngblood
Mur Lafferty
Joe Hill
Margaret Atwood
Stephen King

Their words are
sharp
sweet
bitter
clean
heavy
full

My own words
in comparison
are
plain
dull
pedestrian

And I read
and wish
for words
that are
cutting
intriguing
dense
eternal

I used to write.