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The freedom of the writing life

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I was dreaming I was talking to a famous author. She told me, It’s easy to be a writer, you just open a vein and bleed. I asked her what her name was and she said that didn’t matter. Then she climbed a tree and disappeared.

A pigeon pecked at my left ear and woke me up. I was lying in the city park where…