Definition #385 Busy

self-caricature by Jeanne

I’m sorry I’m busy
Too busy to burp!
I’m sorry I’m busy
Too busy to furp!

I’m simply too busy
To spell and to count;
Call in relaxers
To stretch me out!

Ahhhhhhhhhhh!

lovingly rhymed for David the Brave
Jeanne Poland
11/14/15

Andrea Barrett said: “I think science and writing are utterly the same thing.

They are completely rooted in passion and desire, if they’re any good at all.

You can fall in love with the natural world in the same way you fall in love with a person.

There’s that same sense of helplessness, of lacking control over how much of your life you want to devote to it.”

Definition #361 Carried Away

self-caricature by Jeanne

Doris Lessing said,

“A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away.

A critic looks at the finished product and ignores the rush of a river that went into the writing,

which has nothing to do with the kind of temperate thoughts you have about it.

If you can imagine the sheer bloody pleasure of having an idea and taking it!

It’s one of the great pleasures in my life.”