Hemingway not!
“Write drunk. Edit sober.” Hemingway not!
He never said it. Plus he worked mornings.
He drank late in the day. Well, yes … a lot.
Still, he did not violate his warnings
To never mix liquor with writing work.
Writing sober is what he emphasized.
If after toils excess words did lurk
Quite lucid his mind when they were excised.
As for me, I am opposite troubled.
Writing volumes initiates my funk.
Scattered thoughts make my efforts redoubled
To make sense from my mind dump. So, “Write drunk?
Edit sober?” Just doesn’t work, methink,
Since editing sober drove me to drink.
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