Terrance says it’s something to move past

since nefarious forces can mimic genre but not the mind true that

if I’m hybrid I can make a mirror of the page and if I’m gone

why not reflect that fact with space     white and blank     I carve

from my amalgam a story the algorithm cannot neutralize I admit

to having limited success with all this genre business given my disparate

emotional investments and my penchant for packages that arrive within

a couple of days

                            turns out capitalism

is a real thing like imperialism like time     a concept fully embraced

by a man who wears a watch on each wrist     keeping close track like that

is a kind of fearlessness I don’t possess but we do agree writing can be a form

of rebellion distinct from revolution which takes up a whole damned life     in the end     

we just want to live and not be boxed in     to write deep into the night undisturbed