writing and research

When you write,
In the morning, in the afternoon
Or the night.
Do you choose the words you use with care.
Can you see
The words that grumble on the page?
Why pick me?
I’m not the word you really want here.
I’m too long,
I just don’t scan, I don’t belong here.
I’m just wrong.
Please take me off the page, delete me.
I’ll be gone.
But [...]

Why do writers fight their muse
Leaving words in their mind like unbinned refuse?
Words that could be written for posterity.
Why do we writers start work late
Feeding the urge to procrastinate.
And when words in our heads try to escape, close the mind’s door.
A writer is rarely their own best friend
When it comes to their work.
They’d rather sit [...]