Borrow an excuse.
Start a new task.
Look at the empty pages
in a notebook—
witness the intense beauty.
Rip out your first mistake,
the line width of your jealously.
Get attached to a sharpened pencil
for no reason.
Shloka Shankar, 2017
Remixed work:
23 Things Anyone Who’s Slightly Obsessed With Stationery Has Secretly Done,
by Gena-mour Barrett