$$ and poetry

[just mercedes]

I have to add that when I work as an editor for ezines etc, I don't get paid for my work, and I have to wade my way through a lot of words. I don't get paid for the majority of my published poems either, like most poets. Someone posted a snick at poets who keep a FB/twitter presence, as if that makes their work less worthwhile, less valuable. I just think I'm way better off than a poet who has no way of contacting readers - and, after all, that's why the birds sing, isn't it? So someone will listen? Why would you write, if you didn't want to be read? And on the other hand, why would you pay to be read? It's that kind of tension that creates poetry.