Among the things I try to have around
me every day, are writing pads and ink
(and toilet paper, avocado, ground
dark coffee and home seltzer for my drink).
Although I’ve reams to write on, I have found
I scribble on used paper. What to think?
It’s not from thriftiness, so much, perhaps,
as modesty, that I begin on scraps.

(Ottava Rima)