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# Writer's Block
- URL: https://www.andyposner.org/writers-block/
- Published: 2026-09-06T22:04:39.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-06T22:11:55.000Z
- Description: Whatever touch I had is gone. Maybe I never had it. That would be better. One can't throw away a non-belonging. Can't chase after the dump truck for some treasure that isn't there.
- Author: Andy Posner
- Tags: poetry

Whatever touch I had is gone.  
Maybe I never had it. That would be better.  
One can't throw away a non-belonging.  
Can't chase after the dump truck  
for some treasure that isn't there.

What if it's the desire for touch?  
Now that would be grim. One can debate  
its source. Nature vs. nurture, etc.  
But to give up smacks of fatalism.  
May as well become a Prokaryote that  
lives inside those who have or want touch.

Then I wouldn't go through the motions  
or rue my idle days. Wouldn't think or  
be thought of. Wouldn't know my role  
in the nutrient cycle. That without me  
Earth is just another dead, spinning rock.

Shall I pen a multi-volume ode to  
the single-celled organism and all  
the blind and dumb building blocks of  
my wasted genius? Failing that, shall  
I blame laziness, arrogance, or both?