My Wife Asks Why.
My wife asks
why I’m always doing stuff
all the time.
And I guess, for me,
I just want to do
something significant.
It’s how I tick.
I want to make something
big and grand,
something that expresses
the big idea—
something that’s my idea
of art and culture.
Obviously, I want
to spread these things
far and wide
because I want them
to matter.
And I know—
the marketable thing
would be to make one thing,
then talk about that one thing
for years.
That’s how ideas actually spread.
But I’m a bad marketer
of my own work
because I have so much
I want to get out there.
I just need to blurt it all out.
So I got a lot of volume.
And I need to
somehow
get it out—
because there’s so much stuff
and only so much time.
Yet I hope,
with all of this,
something will land,
something will stick.
And somehow,
it ends up mattering.
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