Biography
If it doesn’t come bursting out of youin spite of everything, don’t do it.
unless it comes unasked out of your
heart and your mind and your mouth
and your gut, don’t do it.
if you’re doing it for money or fame,
don’t do it.
if you’re doing it because you want
women in your bed, don’t do it.
if it’s hard work just thinking about doing it,
don’t do it. if you have to wait for it to roar out of
you, then wait patiently.
if it never does roar out of you, do something else.
if you first have to read it to your wife
or your girlfriend or your boyfriend
or your parents or to anybody at all,
you’re not ready. unless it comes out of
your soul like a rocket, unless being still would
drive you to madness or suicide or murder,
don’t do it. unless the sun inside you is
burning your gut, don’t do it.
when it is truly time, and if you have been chosen,
it will do it by itself and it will keep on doing it
until you die or it dies in you. there is no other way.
and there never was.