Friday, December 7, 2007

what Michael Stipe taught me about the writing process

free association

Ventriloquists, Tom Cruise, roof shingles, bad bruise, peanuts, marsupan, wonder bread, Flanders Ned.
Composition, scar tissue, the New Yorker Fiction issue; creamed corn, slaughtered pigs, heffalumps, Jason Biggs.
Grad school, recycled paper, always unnecessay drape draper; Dr. Suess, Everett Ruess, Suptertramp, Alaskan camp.
Time-off, switched on, candy canes, Gravitron; snow storm, marshmallows, hooded sweatshirts, bedfellows.

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