Tuesday, September 9, 2014

tête-à-tête 101


when they ask
so where are you these days? or
what do you do these days?
they don’t mean, how do you live?
far less, what do you live for?

what they’re asking is
what do you do for a living?
just smile and say, this and that
if you don’t have an answer for the giving

‘coz, poetry, is not an answer
they’ll understand
honey

they don’t mean
what do you do with your time?
they mean, what do you do about the money?


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