why not you

8x8" letterpress edition print of the poem permission from the collection ‘small little homecomings’

Hand printed with a warm dark gray ink on soft white letterpress.

full poem

You do not need
permission
to want what you want.

There is no original idea,
nothing new
under the sun.

So, want what you want.
Pull down an idea,
toss it around,
build it relentlessly
or leave it
for someone else.

Put your heart in it
or take yourself out —
find what's yours
and do it with everything you have.

Because why not you?