My Poetic License
or,
Chump Change
dreamed 2008/10/5 by Wayan
I stand in line (it's short, today)
at the State Department of Poetry to renew my poetic license. A tallish girl at the counter asks
Does it surprise you? After all,
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Now it's time to pay, so I
open my mother's checkbook. Out of work, sick and broke, I had to ask my mom for a check just to cover my license-fee. Trusting, she handed me all. But I worry--will the SDP
And don't even think about
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Comedy Doggerel School! Just jail,
then bureaucratic gobbledygook for life, with no appeal. Oh, great! My mother's book is all
I blush, ashamed to stand before
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