Trying to sell a book of poems is like trying your whole
life to avoid suffering. Trying to sell a book of poetry is like trying to
teach pigs to fly, talk jive to a turtle, sing sweet nothings to every loss you’ve
had. There’s a seaside burden in such loneliness. You walk to and fro, hoping to
sell a bit of your wounded and triumphant soul and nobody gives a damn it
seems. So you try to sing louder too. You try getting religious even with
pleating prayers to a foreign god. There’s wind-chimes and all the lies come
like a new kind of wind-song. And luck comes to you like freedom and you too
breaking bread and drinking wine, and there’s an infinity of truths dancing
through your mind. Every shadow a blessing in summer’s hot throat. Yes, you too
nothing but a brief season.
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