Tuesday, May 19, 2020

AO2.0

Consider, if you will, the fanfic writer
Trapped in a maze of others' words and phrases;
Trying to express somehow a tighter
More carefully constructed set of mazes;
Honing a blade already sharp as sky
Until reality itself is bitten;
Filling in unanswered how and why
In ways the copyholders hadn't written.
Compare them to those writers who wrote first:
Whose fond creations are their subject matter;
The fanfic writer claims they are the worst
But I believe those boundaries must shatter:
What is a fiction, but a fanfic hurled
Against the horror of the real world?

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