Write Till You Drop

Spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all,
right away, every time.

Do not hoard what seems good
for a later place in the book, or
for another book;
give it, give it all, give it now.

The impulse to save something good
for a better place later is the signal to
spend it now.

Something more will arise
for later, something better.

These things fill from behind,
from beneath,
like well water.

Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself
what you have learned is not only
shameful, it is
destructive.

Anything you do not give freely and
abundantly becomes lost to you.

You open your safe and find ashes.