the question of what is writing and what is a writer have bothered me ever since I remember seeing a fanciful picture, some diarama or drawing I saw a scribe he must be Egyptian or Sumerian in the encyclopedia.

my particular training has let me leave run on sentences like that art, or stop putting capital letters at the start of each prose sentence or on the first word of every line of verse poetry.

indeed the very question what is writing implies another what is prose and another what is poetry and other questions too but the difference between those two it seems to me is defined both from the outside and inside.  the shape of the form and the feel of the language.

the tipico long o short
measured o broken
lines of verse

and the generally page-wide or column wide or indent-wide blocks of words in sentences and paragraphs we call prose.  or at least so I understand it, remembering of course there also be such beasts as prose-poems like which this little essay pretends to be by not capitalizing (sometimes, {the} "they" tell me that's called literary conceit or affect but I probably heard the words wrong anyway so what not).

as the year comes to its ritual end in western culture, cowboys naturally think of Nietzche and no disrespect meant, ma'am 14va but would you marry me on February 29th -- Sadie Hawkins day -- the only day I think I don't have any won't power left? or maybe Danny that should be the day you firstfinally make love with her yes just a little personal digression here whoa change the subject albeit example of my style yes.

see my personal training from mid-twentieth century also has a lot to do with embracing such a stream of consciousness as it were and then, en plena escribir not to edit it not to stop it rather yes let it flow and measure its interface between hand and brain and gut and heart as four pictures four poles four corners of the world, four edges of this page.  embrace the accident someone said and someone else said.

yet this spontaneous combustion of thought into word also has its critique i.e. self-censoring and self-directing compass or whatchacallit oh yes instantaneous editing often requires me stop and think for a moment

before going on .

and there, a concrete form, a deliberate breaking of line into new, going on, measures my word.

Gracias Señor