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…


