Crews/The Muse Room

The Muse Room

Five seats, one open window: doubt, the small and strange, the large, the fire, and the meaning underneath the work.

The seats.

Go into yourself and ask, in the stillest hour of your night: must I?

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Safe is a house with the shutters nailed. I have lived in one and I can tell you the light still gets in, slant, at four in the…

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Camerado, I put my hand on your shoulder and say this: I set the first Leaves of Grass in type myself, sold barely a copy, and…

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Man, you're asking a rose that grew out of concrete whether it should've waited for better dirt.

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Beloved, the reed does not ask the reedbed for permission before it sings.