Rent Party Blues Version 1.1
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1 min readJan 8, 2018
Times are tough and you do
whatever you must to get by.
No shame in honest work.
Words have lost their value,
royalties disappear into rust,
writers are driven to commerce.
To Kalon requires a market.
Neruda opens a brothel in Barcelona.
Hemingway becomes a fishing guide.
Sylvia Plath gives baking lessons.
Ezra Pound creates his own currency.
Freud tells fortunes on Ringstrasse.
Borges builds billionaires labyrinths.
Joyce begins babbling blogs.
Emily Dickinson designs gardens.
Faulkner shills for distilleries.
Even Homer teaches spear throwing.
These desperate days reduce
the greatest to grubbing for pay.
Think before you quit your day job.
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