Congratulations

To be an artist

Is a painful thing

Because your success

Depends on your suffering

To be an artist

Means to hurt professionally.

Should the suffering cease,

Art becomes impossible

People think art takes trying

But trying is wrong.

Art is not the product of effort

Nor is it inspired by choice

If you have to try

You're not an artist.

True art is something that happens

Without asking it to

If you can't stop writing

Because the words keep coming out

Like vomit

Congratulations, you're an artist

But if they don't--

If you have to search for them

Don't bother, you're not an artist.

Be thankful