Word Shares
By putting these words away for safekeeping,
have I guaranteed a future return
with a constant reinvestment to create growth poetry,
gathering power with time,
or should I spend my words on income poetry,
paying small but steady dividends?
I haven’t the heart to short my own words,
to buy into their failure even just as a hedge,
my emotional attachment increases my risk,
after all words are a commodity not only
enslaved to the changing tide of supply and demand
but battered by a fickle marketplace
whose prices cannot be charted
with any semblance of certainty.
By putting these words away for safekeeping,
have I guaranteed a future return
with a constant reinvestment to create growth poetry,
gathering power with time,
or should I spend my words on income poetry,
paying small but steady dividends?
I haven’t the heart to short my own words,
to buy into their failure even just as a hedge,
my emotional attachment increases my risk,
after all words are a commodity not only
enslaved to the changing tide of supply and demand
but battered by a fickle marketplace
whose prices cannot be charted
with any semblance of certainty.
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