Artist In A Box Poem by Laurence Overmire

I wish I could believe in money.
I wish I could believe in ego.
I wish I could believe in competition, in winning
at all costs.
But I can't. I see too much.
So I guess I'm stuck as a poor, humble, loser of an
artist
Who can't make a living.
Oh well.
Artists don't really catch on until
after they're dead
anyway
And by then, who gives a fig leaf
One way or the other?

~ Laurence Overmire

(Previously published in Megaera, No.4, Fall 2000)