life on the outside aint what it used to be

[automatic_kafka]

While descending into the Silicon Valley at night, at a certain distance, the cities light up like a printed circuit board. 
Being in a room full of people, they're more like pieces of a whole. Designated functions, social roles filled to find worth or to match whatever best fills gaps or soothes the ego. I watch their gestures, actions and

Comments

[warrior_woman]

You say you have nothing else like that is a bad thing. Seriously, people in creative endeavors (or simply creative people) are under-appreciated by the masses, to put it mildly. They don't care, but they are wrong. If not for creative types we would all be drones.

Personally, having to justify being a writer would be saying it means I think about everything all the time. Which I almost do, but I am not a writer.

Writers have much more function on the grid than drones by virtue of the fact that they are actually contributing to the electrical content rather than simply being a conduit.