shortchanging the muse...

(shame on me...)




"Cheat your landlord if you can - and must - but do not try to shortchange the Muse."
William S. Burroughs



"What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks 'the cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a rat,'.... And it might be just the most boring and awful stuff. But I try. When I'm writing, I write. And then it's as if the muse is convinced that I'm serious and says, 'Okay. Okay. I'll come."
Maya Angelou



(unconvinced muse here...didn't come...and couldn't find any rats to photograph!...)