Hemingway said it’s easy to write—
All you do is sit at the typewriter and bleed.

But we don’t have typewriters anymore,
And I’m afraid if I started,
I would bleed out.

Besides, How do you write
Without getting blood
On those you love?

No—my heart is a hemophiliac.
It doesn’t have the necessary clotting factors.

I would write and bleed
And cause a mess for everyone.

And I would be found the next day,
Lying in a pool of my own regrets
And half-typed memories.