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A Writer's Manifesto.

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I am your neighborhood whore of self-assurance. I am your lock-lipped student. I am every angst-ridden teenager, every heart-aching mother, every boy with a bass guitar. And I am a writer.

I know the strength of the pen and the impact of digital words. I’ll tell you of abandonment that I’ve never suffered, of love never lost, and touch I’ve never felt. I know the sensation of inspiration struck at midnight, of swallowing native ideas, of embracing a language of words never spoken. I’m every sick child you picked on, every boy you cheated on, every adolescent brave enough to pick up a pen, every person who had the guts enough to make a difference on paper. I’m what you wish you were in a place you want. I’m alive in the red glow of lamplight, I breathe in the scratched ideas on a diary’s blank pages. I know the envy of talent surpassed and the anger of muse lost and I use everything you toss to the garbage as my ink.

I’m every song you hate and every book you love, every girl you wish you had kissed and every piece of information you ignored. I’m your freak, your sex, your electric light culture; your raver, your scenester and your black-light nail polish. I’m rough around the edges so you don’t have to be. I’m your cheap screw, your naïveté lost to hormone curiosity. I’m every idea you had but didn’t pursue, every inch you let your hand slide to that dirty place your mother talked about. I’ll give a musical sound to your deafened ears and I’ll give the cones in your eyes the colors they’re missing.

I’m your text-message romance, the sensation formed in the womb, the beat of life unnoticed. I’m your black-ink revenge, your attention-crazed fingers, your living, breathing skin cells that cry out for the stimulation of human contact. I’m your brother-in-arms, your school-shooter newsbreak, your hammering question and your nagging answer.

I’m every prejudice in your head, every one-hit-wonder. I’m your superior, your inferior, your can, your can’t; everything you wish you could be and everything you have. I’m you lover, your liar, your beauty, your suicidal, ten-volt ego, your pulsing need. I’m every religious handbook, every utopian socialist, every massive sigh you heave, the tune in your step, the trill in your cry and beautiful bliss in your pain. I’m every inhaled, injected, crack-house drug you breathe. I’m senses amputated, I’m hello, ignorance and goodbye, pretty things. I’m your media analysis, your superficial non-conformist. I’m Trash Flavored Trash and Laser Life. I am one and I’m all, I’m giving and I’m taking.

I’m the God of my world. I’m your half-sister and your best friend’s brother. I’m pen and paper. I’m vomit-ideas. I’m red lights and purple freedom. I’m bliss. I’m release. I’m a writer.
Spurs of inspiration for the win. Blood Brother's references also for the win. I think only writers will understand this.

~Finch
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kierakiller's avatar
Very good you had such a pull to your words it was beautiful from one fellow writer to the next you did superb