The problem has to do with everyone editing themselves on here. I do it, you do it, we all do it. Sentences get squashed by the ‘delete’ or ‘backspace’ keys, by the blade-like tip of the ballpoint pen as we cross out sentences, words, names; whole feelings, whole experiences. I send words to their death several times a week and it isn’t out of kindness. How many memories have I killed mid-thought? Hundreds I suppose, and the unfortunate thing is that words like to haunt you long after they’ve faded from the page. They bury themselves inside of you until you’re brimming, until your joints ache with the pressure of the soft th, long a, short e. Every letter weighs an ounce. Every word, a pound. So then I have to go back. I need to dig up each little grave; each small, significant death. I have to ask myself why. Why do I write? Why? It takes a moment, but it comes, and I know. I know I write because I want to make someone bleed, I want to make them cry, to make them look away because maybe what I have to say makes them a little uncomfortable. I want to make someone out there in the world tremble. I want to kidnap the breath from a set of lungs. I want to rebuild a heart. I want to bring the rain with my words. But lately the closest I seem to get is a partly cloudy sky, a crisp fifty-three degree day. I can’t thicken the clouds. The sun won’t refuse to stop shining. She lets down her golden hair and I burn, I burn, I burn. 

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