JUICE
no one doubts if
I’ve got
what poetry takes
more than
editors
when I don’t
hardcore cuss
because
the syllables
bleed feeble
don’t go
Dita Von Teese
don’t get
how I don’t
squeeze juice
from
catfish tits
no one doubts
more
than
when I say
another poem
got picked up
today
did you make any money,
he says
no, I say
or yes when Every Day Poets
tosses a dollar
into the till
let me know
when we’re rich,
he says
—from Rattle #42, Winter 2013
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Wanda Morrow Clevenger: “I started journal writing in high school (1973), but put this aside to concentrate on sketching and painting and a hundred other things before returning to writing in 2007—full circle it seems.” (web)