have you gone completely mad?

of course,

it's not easy

If it were easy

everybody would've done it

But this... this required courage

above all. It required guts. It

required an overdose of

nonconforming

And today was the day

that proved he was just the right man

for it

Often

the right man is the insane man,

the soul who dares to

be the revolutionary who goes against

the system

Dammit, everything was in

place. The cards were dealt and all bets

placed. The muse was

caged and ready

to be milked

"Here I go," he said, ignoring the knocks

and the shouts coming from

beyond the sturdy door

of his office

The nonbelievers were trying to

reach out to him

fools without vision

like his mother and his wife

and mother-in-law

and the children

Oh, they demanded to know for what reason

did he suddenly decide to

quit his high-paying job at the law firm

to start a career as a writer

what fools

"Darling, what about the mortgage?"

"What about your retirement funds, you idiot?"

"What about the kids' college debt?"

"Have you gone completely mad, for

Christ's sake?"

Yes. Yes, I have.

One has to be mad to write. But still,

no matter how mad a writer is,

he still doesn't hold

a candle to the nine to five

salary man, does he?

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