Monday, December 10, 2018

Erasable Pen

I'm out of erasable pens.
and I miss them.
Why do I love them so much?
With regular pens -
Ballpoint, roller-ball, gel -
You mess up,
The mistake stays.
Indelible.
You cross out.
You scribble over.
At best you use correction fluid or tape.
But it's like covering up a crime.
Correction tape hangs over an error
Like crime-scene tape over a crime.
Look here!
Something happened.
It leaves a tell-tale difference.
But an erasable pen?
You can pretend the mistake never happened.
And go on with your
Life.
No cross-outs,
No scribbles,
No tell-tale off-shade white .
Only the smooth tint of the paper itself,
And the self assured hand
That - apparently -
Never makes mistakes.

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