Basic Thing
 

The poem is just like everything else:
you eat
you drink
you breathe
you shit
you make love
(if you’re lucky)
 
you live and you die
 
It’s vital, essential
instinctive
necessary
and beyond that too
 
It’s basic in its element
this thing
 
how it comes, how
it flows through
no questions asked
 
You write the poem as you live your life
You live your life as you write the poem
 
If you want to stop
well, that’s up to you


* David Mac's work has appeared in Ambit, Mud Luscious, Monkey Kettle, Clockwise Cat, This Zine Will Change Your Life, a few poetry anthologies, as well as soon in Erbacce and Urban District Writer. He describes himself as “a rare and mythical creature who resides in a blue bunker underground, somewhere in the Bedfordshire hell!” (Bedfordshire is not that bad …Ed. No, on second thoughts it is.)