Achieving a Modicum of Success

Michael Burg, MD (Satire Sommelier) 😬
Doctor Funny
Published in
2 min readJun 15, 2021

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Modicum, as in a medium (small “m”) amount

Note: No medium here either. This is a fortune teller. *** Photo by Hulki Okan Tabak on Unsplash

All of the ways you can “make it” on this writing platform. Messaged and massaged with as many “medium” (small “m”) synonyms as I could muster.

Tag telepathically, just right
Like a sorcerer, in the dark night
Write stories of just the right length
Conjure up all your strength
Four minutes is just about medium
Too long is just about tedium
Too short, don’t you know it
They’ll call you a poet
There’s no lucre there
So rhymers beware

Can you prophet from loss?
You can, if you do dare toss
Self-Help or How-To in the sauce
Then you’re being the boss
A diviner you’ll be
A clairvoyant, genie
A sage who’s a seer
A soothsayer, “Shakes pee-er”
A psychic, a mystic, bar none
Praise Neo, you are the one
You peer through the matrix
Watch Al Gorithm, he play tricks

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Michael Burg, MD (Satire Sommelier) 😬
Doctor Funny

The “MD” & “um” in Medium, and the “er” in wisenheimer | Doctor Funny editor/czar | Sultan of satire | disgraced former parking lot attendant