Your work is

— Friends, today’s post is a writing prompt, which is to riff on: Your work is…..— There is a piece I read ages ago (2014 to be exact), on the magazine Brevity, by A. Papatya Bucak. It begins: “My work is to write this sentence and revise it into that sentence. To take this word and replace it with that word.My work is a novel I wrote from five to seven a.m. for more than two years and that will never be published.My work is to be the person you trust to tell the truth, even though I am a known liar.”— You can read the full post here. — Two favourite lines from the brief piece: “My work is to tell you that without art we would be in a world without art.” “My work is to imagine a world without art so that there is never a world without art.”— I guess the internet is not all bad, since it’s still possible to read the above and then to look up the author. — I often think about Cixous’s line about how “you are not an employee.” And you’re not, you know? Sure you need a paycheque and have…