Why I Write, Part x+205: I Can Settle Down

Baseball was my first love,

and I will never again know passion

As I did playing football, while young,

But now that I write, I can settle down.

Writing is not one, but a hundred different games.

If you play the right ones, nearly all the rules change.

There are so many things to love about this art,

But here's a start:

I love that I can work on multiple projects

and nobody will claim that I am cheating.

I love that I can pay homage to my idols

and somebody will claim that I am stealing.

I love that I can cut the skin to the truths-meat,

Or spend two hundred pages lying honestly.

I love the word “whimsical,”

Which is itself whimsical,

But mostly I love that I've already written

Eighteen lines, without a goal or a reason,

and it's illegal for anybody to stop me.