Are the characters we create
Imaginary or real?
The words they say,
The places they go,
The lives they live.
Begotten ex nihilo
From the writer’s imagination.
Are they figments of the mind?
Mere chicken scratches in notebooks?
Or do I sit and talk with them?
Have I made spirits manifest?
© 2017 by Benjamin Goodrich
Vox Humbug 
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