Once I'm in the Zone
A bar about flow — when the writing stops needing oxygen and starts breathing for you.
There’s a state athletes call flow and writers call the zone. The thing you’ve been working at suddenly works back. This is from one of those nights.
Write the check, hit the deck
Vision’s visionary like Lex, yes!
I’m coming at you at all angles
Never needing breath —
Cuz once I’m in the zone
I’m like Buddha —
Meditate: this is my rest;
It comes from the soul
I was destined to wreck!
Once I’m in the zone, I’m like Buddha — meditate: this is my rest. That’s the move. The work stops costing you and starts paying you, and the only price of admission was showing up for the bored hours that came before it.
You don’t always get to visit. But you can build the habits that make the visits more likely.
— JTC