Audacity

Writing is the art of bullshit.

It is saying what has been said a thousand times in such a way

that people want to read it

and it looks original.

But it's not - pain is pain and love is love and everything else just falls between

or through the cracks.

You have the audacity to ask writers for authenticity?

You'll get flowery words,

words dripping with emotion

(true, honest, raw emotion, I can't deny)

but it's all still bullshit. 

The things we write do not stem or blossom from emotions.

We use the things we write to justify how we feel.

To explain it to ourselves

and then we think, if someone else understands it, that it is real.

Authentic.

But all we create has Made in Taiwan stamped on its cheap plastic bottom.

These cheap things we pass off as art, we claim to put our soul into,

will degrade over time

just like us.