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This small typed statement frames writing as a daily obligation rather than a hobby bounded by weekends.

It sounds declarative, almost defensive, as if the writer is insisting on the seriousness of his practice to an authority figure. The page is brief but pointed.

A brief, almost defensive declaration to a patriarch: 'I want to make it clear to you father, that / I write every day, and saturdays and sundays / are not weekends...' The trailing ellipsis leaves the insistence open-ended. Writing is asserted as unbroken daily labor, not leisure - the address to 'father' giving the claim the charge of a defense made to authority.