poetry is not a career / there is no money in language / every poet who takes poetry seriously is an amateur / every approach to language is the 1st one / a poet who is bored by life is by default frustrated with language
words stink / they must / sometimes like musk / sometimes like a full toilet bowl
each serious poet takes reading seriously / and read for serious pleasure / reading is not a career / reading is writing / only not
there is
no other qualification
to poetry
but passion
no job / or degree / can bestow passion upon a person / every serious poet is a failure / every serious poet measures success by how well the poet fails
the poet must live within / create / own contradictions
poetry is poetry
money is money
there is no metaphor in this
the poet goes to language with seriously empty hands
