After my reading, my partner poet asked
me, on-stage, during the question and answer period, why she could
not find me in my poems. I said something inadvertently,
unthinkingly, which has been reverberating inside myself. And I think
it must be true.
I said, "I write so that I will not be needed."
I said, "I write so that I will not be needed."
Just so, parenting. Just so, living in
general: in some fundamental way, our task is to erase our own
necessity.
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Wise.
Brava.
This creative function struck me forcibly every time I directed a play that worked. That sense of postpartum redundancy. I'd not considered it in respect of the production of a poem, but if one thinks in terms of releasing rather than composing, it makes perfect sense.
Wow. True. I am pressing the Like button. ;)
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