Poet Prejudice

or Medium Disappointment

Dennett
Dennett
Nov 1 · 1 min read
Photo by abi ismail on Unsplash

Will Medium poets soon
be out for hire,
begging on bridges
and park benches?
Will my retirement from
what I no longer want to do
be a dream unrealized?
Time spent reading a haiku
doesn’t compute into cents,
much less Partner Program dollars.
I will not be forced to write
listicles of 10 things to do
before any poet is awake
or how to wake up that poet
before the dawning of
another day…

Dennett

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Dennett

I was always a writer but lived in a bookkeeper’s body before I found Medium and broke free — well, almost. Working to work less and write more.

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