WRITING FOR MONEY
by Edward Field
My friend and I have decided to write for money,
he stories, I poems.
We are going to sell them to magazines
and when the cash rolls in
he will choose clothes for me that make me stylish
and buy himself a tooth where one fell out.
Perhaps we will trawl, to Tahiti maybe.
Anyway we’ll get an apartment with an inside toilet
and give up our typing jobs.
That’s why I’m writing this poem,
to sell for money.
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From A Full Heart
I tol' you, I tol' you.<br /><br />buy my cheap poems at http://www.robertschwabpoet.com! <br /><br />I think poets should be paid for their work. It's the only way to survive in a market economy, and there's no guarantee you will survive even if the price is right.<br /><br />But, Joe, you know I already stand for this. Loved the poem, though. Just wish Ed Field would make a buck or
this is such a cool short poem.<br />I love it. It is true, simple and direct.
Actually not, Sabina—I had this queued before you posted about Prince. Go figure!<br /><br />And Ed—I did make $500 bucks when my <i>Bed of Coals</i> won the Colorado Poetry Award back in the Pleistocene. And I probably raked in about $30 total from <i>Poetry</i> back when Joseph Parisi was editor (I'm not allowed within 25 yards of them now—judge's orders). And then when I was a grad
Is this a rebuttal to my Prince post? 🙂
that's a plan worthy of<br /><br />I<br /><br />sold a poem once it was 1973 &<br />as I recall it was to a magazine called Poetry &<br />they paid a nickel a word a<br />word as defined was five spaces<br /><br />so I used a lot of empty spaces (thus how I came to my style… for M O N E Y and the concomitant F A M E <br />& even so witth all of the spaceses & corect
Enjoyed this one a lot, Joseph. Oh, if only it were possible, eh?<br /><br>