The Employee Handbook for Poets
by TBO's Dear Tick
The interview is in your hand
it comes out of a book
if you are right for poetry
we will know by the look.
The training is in sestinas
and limericks and sonnets
practicing the basic art
and putting your mark on it.
The pay is made in satisfaction
occasionally a fan
and the hatred that is generated
by makers of evil plans.
The prize is in a roses core
a delicate half op'ed thing
when grit and glory congregate
and your wildest joys take wing.
Vacation pay is the daily grind
that pulls you from your work
the pension plan is memories
to the last, you did not shirk.
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