Have you made a single penny? Well maybe more than a dollar...
how about a months worth of rent.. or .. or
What has your Chapbook given you?
How about your internet Royalties
Are you genetically susceptible to carrot chasing ?
I figure most of us are-- us yanks. It's in the water, truckloads of P.E.T. plastic telling you that you saw hydrogenated gold on a mountain. If only you could package, market, and sell the damn thing....
you could be a pioneer
time to re-invent sliced bread, there's a knife in your hand
but you rather hack at the words cause your responding to some urgency that says therapy is just trading stories
....Ann Frank was just journalizing
Machiavelli was just playing secretary to his Prince
and maybe words have been said 'a thousand times a thousand ways'
before
but you still smile when  six strings create the millionth unique chord
when the kids stops saying he hates you and is old enough to say he loves you
when a movie arranges your thinking
but  literary friends would rather hear obscure citations
so you smoke at the gas station
waiting for propagation of a seed
a theme you planted
and you hadn't realized that the theme was used before
or perhaps your two centuries behind Dumas, wondering if Tarantino was genius
or just a taker
Einstein echoes in your head: there are two types of genius... two types
the first is never fully understood till after death
the second makes you a mental Ferangi
your family berate you in your own self interest...

YOU CAN'T REINVENT THE WHEEL... YOU CANT!

Again you think of Henry Ford shoving engineers in a small closet
denying them food till they designed a V-8
it's that commitment of the  Vikings who took a matchstick
to their wooden ships
~ victory or death ~
The idea has been borne