A few months ago I hosted a brunch in my backyard with a fellow poet who claimed to me that “to be a poet in this era is to have a target on one’s back.” Not all poets will feel this way, but those whose writing pierces the veil of bullshit will.
If you write or speak a truth that people do not want to hear in the era in which we live (perhaps all eras)…
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