What shall it profit
poets if they never turn
one and keep writing?
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Beyond the profit
of a published masterpiece,
honorable exercise.
profit
Profit and Loss
At what cost, writing?
And at what price is meaning
when sacrificed to profit?
~
Writers profit by
finding meaning and pleasure
in the words that come their way.
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Common Profit?
Tell me, my poet
friend, do you think folks mostly
do the best they can?
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Good folk do their best,
but greedy folk make their buck
at the cost of all the rest.
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Would Grow Woods
What if money did
grow on trees – would we change our
currency to leaves?
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Smarter people would
invest in groves; the greedy
would denude the whole forest.
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The Truth Will Set You Free
How does one explain
to a Christian Congress what
“Love thy neighbor…” means?
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No explanation
necessary. They know but
there’s no profit in caring.
Mondo Sedoka 