So says the stuck-up writer.

If you want to be a stuck-up writer,
Quote voraciously from Shakespeare,
Eliot, cummings, Lawrence and Frost.
Feel like you know them inside-out
That their feelings are nothing but your own,
Shout-out to them like they're listening,
And converse--converse like they care.

If you want to be a stuck-up writer,
Peer at the moon, count the stars,
Keep track of time and neatly notice
Every damn detail and scribble,
Hoping the unison the pen and paper
Never dies and sing a song of the
Wholeness of the night a little less loved.

If you want to be a stuck-up writer,
Fall in love with someone you must
Instead avoid, and speak of your favorite
Books at a coffee shop, eat lesser than usual,
Repeatedly tuck your hair behind your ear,
And be glad that it happened, maybe show
Him some of your poetry?

If you want to be a stuck-up writer,
Get drunk on the cheapest cocktail,
And claim that the world is your snow globe,
Write like nobody's business, and also
Rhyme like it has always been your thing,
Walk under the streetlight feeling the warmth,
Repeating words of a happy song.

But if you don't want to be a stuck-up writer,
Quote from a best friend's poem or text,
Because you know them inside-out,
Spend each moment under the stars and
Notice them, but not as significant parts of poetry,
Fall in love with someone who knows you
Write poetry and that too bad poetry and yet
Accepts you. Get drunk and weep, for
You know and so do I, not all of us are
Happy drunks. Don't be a stuck-up writer,
Love, laugh, forget. Write when you miss.
Write for the self. Write because you need.