The Writer's State

he first took up the pen in
the fervour of youth seeing
clearly that it was a perfect world
and he must needs communicate
it to the ignorant masses crying
out for thegreatamericannovel

for a span of years the mead of
poetry sustained him but
as middle age approached doubt
crept in and late nights he
asked the sky why people
were evil and crass by nature and
if the mkgandhis and nelsonmandelas
did not have effect then
how could clark kent hope
to save the world from itself?

so he sat for a time in silent
hatred watching people
tear themselves to pieces in
the quest to discover
why everymanforhimself
is such a sorry state

and after that time he
took up the pen again thinking
that after all the world
could stand some editing