Somethings

A Collection of Incompletion
A Collection of Incompletion

It’s the same problem I always seem to have.

I can’t pull the pieces
                the words
                the phrases
        even the multiple formed paragraphs
                together
   into anything usable
                    or interesting
   into something worth reading
   into something that’s actually
         something
      and not just a big web of
         somethings.

I have hundreds of pages
                       of starts
   that don’t go anywhere.

Much of my art is the same way.
There’s something there (I think)
        possibly even
           something good
           or that at least has potential –
   if I could just get it to go there.

My boss told me
   I should get an editor.

Huh.

That’s what I do
   almost every day
                  for other people.

Maybe I need
   that extra pair of trusted eyes
   that can coach me
               help me work through it
               help me get there
               help me actually make something
                 out of my huge mess
                             of incomplete
                                 unfinished somethings.