Give All

Artists will sell some things but also give some things away

I’m a cork on the ocean
of a story.

Art is sourced. Apprentices graze
in the field of culture.

Artists will sell some things
but also give some things away.

I’m a leaf on a windy day -
pretty soon
I’ll be blown away.

Do plunder my visions.

You, reader, are welcome
to my stories. They were
never mine in the first place.

But I gave them to you.

If you have the inclination to pick them up
take them
with my blessing.

Jonathan Lethem published ‘The Ecstasy of Influence’ in Harper's Magazine;Vol. 314, Iss. 1881, Feb 2007. I ‘found’ this piece there.

Dream intentionally - while you’re awake