Quantitative Quantitivity

Quantity is rough.
How do these people write so much
in such
a tiny space of time
Their minds
must be ever taut
with unrelenting thought
to continue, press on, drive
ahead, their fingers fly and strive
to write
and right! It’s right,
all stuff of value,
mildly waffle, sure, but indeed all true
Perhaps unsophisticated and verbose
and overly developed prose
No commas, punctuation
and way too complex sentence construction,
Yet comprehensive,
certainly extensive,
Covering all that needs to be said,
while coming across as very well read,
And even if that may not be the case
it’s them who win the race
I think, at least,
or maybe my prowess has just decreased
and I’m delusional
My mind has gone diagonal
They say don’t sell
yourself short, but well
I just can’t write, or speak,
or read, or leak
ideas that quick
or think
ahead by 20 paragraphs
If only I could write just half
as fast as I could type
then life
would suck less
Ah, this is a mess.

(March 2023)