2022, Ohio River Valley Literature, Poet's Life, poetry

“How to Survive your Post-MFA Life When That Teaching Job Doesn’t Just Drop in Your Lap”

a comment on a book title of a book not read and having no interest

the solution, kids, is simple

OPEN YOUR EYES
FUCKING WRITE*

*free advice from a working poet. Meaning I work. And I write.

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poetry

enough

a well-suited armchair comfy and
a pile of books a cup of coffee
some paper a pen small a rug
dogs under foot small dignities
take so much and seem to take more
and the cost is sweat and the cost
is blood and the cost is time and
we are told comfort is earned
and we are told we are
not working enough we are told
we are not
enough

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