Didi Wood's Pick:
Met(er)ing Out Devotion
by Barry Ergang

"This tickles me, for obvious reasons, but it also reminds me of some basic truths about writing: that it's a solitary pursuit, that one has no control over inspiration, and that these things can be hard for non-writers to understand."

"Some poet you are," she sniffed.

Christ! Another of her incessant interruptions! Sighing, he looked up from his desk. "What's wrong now?"

"Five years together and you've never written a poem for me."

"Maybe I'll write you an elegy."

"I'm not dead yet, genius — remember?"

"It's early yet," he murmured, eyeing the letter opener.

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