lowering my standards

whenever i think i can't or am unable to write another line or word i think of the late poet william stafford who got up each morning before dawn sat at his desk took a sheet of paper & composed his daily poem

stafford was asked by critics readers & admirers often what if he can't write that morning's poem

i lower my standards he said

& i am not making a direct comparison to my own life as a poet to stafford's life in poetry but i think he was on to something

so i say fuck it i lower my standards too & dig in