Pain

Violence is no requirement for meaning
Building does not beg breaking
Feeding entails no bleeding
Art can stand without the beating, yet

writers are known for their drunkenness
for their sullen tempers 
and gray dispositions
all for their craft 
or because of it

This method acting is by the accident of habit
of the imperfect science of 
birthing without breathing
of pretending to be authentic

Pain is intoxicating 
Maybe that's why scabs itch so much
they heal us, yet
we like to touch
and grab
and scratch
and pull
and bleed

but I want my blood to dance inside my body
I don't have need for red ink anymore
Death scenes can do without Stanislavski
I can write in watercolor