If I charged you a penny for
a poem, would you pay it, dropping
some change in my literary
jar – or would you go on walking,
avoiding the words, letting me wrap
up dead fish in manuscript pages,
giving or throwing them away?
If I charged you a penny for
a poem, would you pay it, dropping
some change in my literary
jar – or would you go on walking,
avoiding the words, letting me wrap
up dead fish in manuscript pages,
giving or throwing them away?
