Sound Advice

To write a lot, you must be left

alone a lot, or become

a journalist who is confronted a lot

by deadlines every day.

If you choose to be left alone a lot

such as I, having a cat or dog helps.

Had I not been left alone a lot, perhaps I

would write about what you have to say.

Day after day, month after month,

I write a lot. My dog lies around a lot

and looks up at me occasionally with

not a word to say. With a lot of time,

neither of us have deadlines to be met,

not a lot anyway, not now or any other day.

Sometimes a lot; sometimes not; mostly, at

times, I would say.

Chris Hanch 10-26-17