Feelings: Being The Song Poem by Margaret Alice

Now we must attend a seminar in sales and
self-promotion to qualify as writers of poetry
because we must reach for the financial sky
and make a profit, heaven knows why, when I
want money I can work for it, or if sales is my
thing I’ll talk you into buying plastic things that
will last a lifetime – or at least until you lose it
somewhere, then you can buy some more;
I could sell cosmetics, teach you how to look
your best so you just send out your photograph
and need not learn how to spell to cultivate
the craft of writing correctly and making
sense every now and then – thus I shall
play with words and make them sing for
me, life is all about being the song and
not selling my soul to Mammon!