<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.33em 0px 0.1em; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; line-height: 1.2em; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font size="4" style="font-weight: normal;" class="">The Joy of Writing</font></h2><div class=""><br class=""></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Why does this written doe bound through these written woods?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">For a drink of written water from a spring<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">whose surface will xerox her soft muzzle?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Why does she lift her head; does she hear something?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Perched on four slim legs borrowed from the truth,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">she pricks up her ears beneath my fingertips.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Silence - this word also rustles across the page<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">and parts the boughs<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">that have sprouted from the word "woods."<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Lying in wait, set to pounce on the blank page,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">are letters up to no good,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">clutches of clauses so subordinate<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">they'll never let her get away.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Each drop of ink contains a fair supply<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">of hunters, equipped with squinting eyes behind their sights,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">prepared to swarm the sloping pen at any moment,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">surround the doe, and slowly aim their guns.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">They forget that what's here isn't life.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Other laws, black on white, obtain.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">The twinkling of an eye will take as long as I say,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">and will, if I wish, divide into tiny eternities,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">full of bullets stopped in mid-flight.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Not a thing will ever happen unless I say so.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Without my blessing, not a leaf will fall,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">not a blade of grass will bend beneath that little hoof's full stop.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Is there then a world<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">where I rule absolutely on fate?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">A time I bind with chains of signs?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">An existence become endless at my bidding?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">The joy of writing.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">The power of preserving.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Revenge of a mortal hand.</p><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Wislawa Szymborska</div><div class="">
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