Saturday, March 20, 2010

Writers! A Manifesto. (work in progress)

Writers!

Abandon the staid center, your faculty meetings and lattes, your unimaginative friends, your practical cars and shoes, your scramble to perceive the cultural norm!

Life is alive at its fringes!
Break through your glass ceiling to be solar-powered by the brilliance above!
Find the thing that makes your pulse burst in your ears every second, that moves you like a perpetual motion machine!
Corner your cowardice, loose the tethers, skyrocket to rock stardom!


Writers!
Lift the tool at hand!
Assume a mandate to observe and compellingly describe the minute and the miraculous!
Uncover your faith and wonder of the world with words resonant and rhythmic!
Bring people to their senses in the most bodily sense of the word!
Unearth your voice, and harness the river of words -
Be a conduit for whatever it is that rings through you!

Lift your voices to sing, tremble, wail -

Pierce people’s hearts, shake them by their lapels from the page, and leave us all on our knees before the beauty and terror of it all!

Writers!
The unhinged universe awaits your divine proclamations!