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Why I'M Not Currently Making Any Money At This Poetry Stuff

“Poetry is useless,” she thinks, “especially mine, 'cause it stinks! But what can I do? I can’t follow through on any sort of sensible job training, even that of learning to rhyme properly.”

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Date: 8/12/2016 10:27:00 AM
Someday, Christine, this will be found in a yellowing manuscript and VIOLA!!! Posthumous fame and fortune will be yours. Maybe you can tell the landlord to hold the check for a few decades.
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Christine Lehman
Date: 8/12/2016 11:46:00 AM
Or more likely, a yellowing, decaying CPU from my computer, since I've never actually committed it to dead-tree paper! But I get your drift! Thanks for the funny comment! :-)
Date: 8/10/2016 10:08:00 AM
The check is in the mail for this one.
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Christine Lehman
Date: 8/10/2016 3:53:00 PM
Yahoo! I'll keep vigil by the mailbox! :D
Date: 8/10/2016 10:03:00 AM
Maybe we don't need to make money, honey. Just express yourself.
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Christine Lehman
Date: 8/10/2016 3:53:00 PM
I agree! But of course, if anyone wants to send me $100 for this one, I'll take it. ;-)
Date: 8/10/2016 9:55:00 AM
ha ha ha I especially love the very humourous final line:-) hugs Jan xx
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Christine Lehman
Date: 8/10/2016 3:53:00 PM
Thanks, Jan!! xx

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