August 2010
grave accomplishments
No water to send paper bottles or glass boats
The sky has been abstaining
So no fire balloons to the sky
Fears are unharnessed addictions
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No longer sleeping on benches in philadelphia
People who run it ran me out for the last time
Maybe I’m dejected, and don’t understand if I could change it
Enough to actually assuage it
But when was the last time an actual poet did...
$300 Blogger Fee
Philadelphia has begun to roll out this fee
as a philadelphia poet, I think it’s time to move
Final straw. Bad enough I’m still jobless with a degree-
soon to be a ____________ poet.