“But the point is that most people will exploit poets. They’ll exploit them for – well, exploit the older ones for the knowledge they have, and they’ll exploit the younger ones for the promise they have, which somehow or other gives the people some kind of thing that maybe they have promise too, which they don’t.”
- Jack Spicer, Berkeley, 7/14/65
And much the same could probably said of writers in other genres.
Green cones
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The other morning, S. was arranging traffic cones, as usual, near the
cemetery entrance. But they were green! "What happened to the orange
cones?" I as...
16 hours ago
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