The Work

It's a good paying job one quite devoid of monetary reward or financial remuneration. It's an important occupation, an essential branch of the arts, one that takes third place to the least or the last. The poet has to be a sculptor without marble or clay a blind painter of visions that cannot be hung in a gallery or bought for a penny. It is a grand and delusional task poets undertake, a wild hope that words alone can move or improve a jot or a tittle. This 'calling' this willing servitude to only imaginative insights has it own rewards though accolades must be deferred until the world awakens or falls deeper into its sleep.