I don't remember when or why I wrote this, but I like it. What do you guys think?
"The Alphabet
I feel like I’m chasing something so much more than nine to five. More than a car or a house. I’m searching for something prolific, something beautiful, or even spiritual. I’m looking back on Shakespeare, Kerouac, Bob Dylan, Rakim; I think they did something special with this alphabet. They took scribbles on pages and turned them into something as natural as the tree that formed the pages that changed they way people perceive, speak, converse, communicate. They had a way with words I guess. I don’t even know what that is, but I understand it. I feel the literature in the world I see every day. The bus I saw from that back seat became symbolic of a nomadic way of life. That bus could have ferried artist, musician and writer alike as they searched for the words that inspired the feelings that formed what call art. They moved from draft to draft just like the free move from city to city to beach to mountain and back to the city again. Their words played across my mind like those haunting notes from the sax, their sentiments seduced my mind like the girl outside the hotel. I say they. I mean anyone who spoke or wrote words that even one other person could feel, could see, could comprehend in their own lives. Thank Christ we have writers and poets and lyricists to make sense of these connotations. Their words are the red lines on maps, they themselves are explorers. Maybe explorers on a beaten track, maybe exploring tracks that beat them, maybe beating a new track entirely just to see where they end up. You only can only go from A to Z, but there’s a million miles in the middle. There is a plain with no highway, no Greyhound, no liquor store; inspiration comes from pacing the distance between each damn letter and then putting what you just learnt and a little bit more into whatever the hell comes next. Inspiration, the alphabet, history placed in volumes. Look back. Look down. Can you see a page? Is it blank? What are you going to do about it?"