POETRY

For Medium Writers’ And Readers’ Eyes Only

Poems about writers, literacy, and the posterity of your written words

I want books

mountains of books decaying all around me

with me their empathies crackling into vanilla powder

because even though life’s short and then nothing

a well-rounded education of others’ famous thoughts

is an enlightened enough use of your amusement time.

Thank A Writer

you sleep to get your eight hours and keep the yawns away

when earning your bread and rent.

meanwhile a lightbulb in the window

illuminates at night the three am goings-on

in a corner office apartment square

with a writer hunched at the desk

computer glowing against a silhouette

writing the things we would all be reading

in breakfast newspapers and lunch break website pages.

google owes every writer money

for the search engine assistance they’ve provided