It's Not Writers' Cramp

It’s Not Writers’ Cramp
By Larry Linville

Why is it called writers’ cramp?
I don’t have deep sudden pain
or muscles that contract
and I do things I disdain.

Spasms aren’t part of my life.
Horses called “Charley” don’t grab.
I don’t wake up in the night
with pain that makes me feel drab.

I have ideas that don’t move
as I sit and play with my pen
if I’m at the kitchen table
or at my desk in the den.

My thoughts just seem to collect
and lay there suspended in space.
Nothing seems to make them move
no matter how fast I may race.

I don’t think “cramp” is the right word
for this lack of creation.
A more appropriate phrase
is Author’s Constipation!