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  5 Exercises to cure writers block
    1)write about what's on your mind. As Charles Bukowski said, “Writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all.” Sometimes it helps to just put a pen to paper (or fingers to keys) and let the words flow no matter what they are. ...)
    2) break down your ego. ...
    3) call an old friend. ...
    4) try omm writer. ...
    5) create a spinoff
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 Ego, glory…We all have the craving.
Don’t we?

The rejections add up and it hurts, deny this all you want…Putting yourself “out there” for an editor to decide if thoughts, emotions, metaphors, and similes are good enough to publish is courageous, scary, and can lead one to be judgmental when the process does not equal the results you wanted.

Raise your hand if you want to be remembered when you are gone. Be honest.  Are you still stammering and slugging through creative hell?

Emotionally bent. 
A fucked-up dolt in a land of plenty.
 
We all want to be considered unique.  A stumbling genius, maybe publicly awkward…but a champion within this pathetic, myopic world.
 
Punching it out with a society who has their own agenda to consider. 

Being stationary with creativity is a curse—a reputation that no one obviously wants.

Emotionally bent.

When doubt creeps in the only outlet that you could count on.

What to do?
What to say?
What to write?
 
PS:  All my “old friends,” are bankers, clergymen, or dead.
 
PSS: Are you John Lennon, Yeats, Coleridge—Donald Hall?
 
PISS: Only Norman Lear was good at creating “spinoffs.”
 
 
Emotionally bent.
On my third hit of soma to
relieve the sadness.

Dan Provost's poetry has been published throughout the small press for a number of years.  Some recent publications include: Ariel Chart, Poetical Review, Merak Magazine, Oddball Magazine, Deuce Coupe, Misfit Magazine, the Rye Whiskey Review, Cajun Mutt Press and the Dope Fiend Daily.  He has two books coming out in 2020.  Under the Influence of Nothingness by Kung Fu Treachery Press and Rattle of a Realizer, published by Whiskey City Press.  He lives in Berlin, New Hampshire with his wife Laura and dog Bella.