Sunday, July 5, 2009

Poem For Ben, Who Said: There Is No Money In It. Comments

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A book of poems
isn’t worth the price of petrol
for someone’s gas-guzzling battle
into work one day by car.
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Jacqui Thewless
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Adi Cox 05 August 2011

A very true poem. Poverty and poetry go hand in hand. Who needs to pay the electricity bill when you can write poetry by candle light.

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Sonya Florentino 01 August 2009

I agree w/ Paul below, you said it so eloquently....yes, there is no price tag for poetry

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Paul Hansford 09 July 2009

My favourite cartoon strip shows two men in a bar. 'So what do you do? ' 'I'm a poet.' 'What do you do for a living? ' You've said much the same, only much more eloquently.

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Jacqui Thewless

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