4.07.2023

if you want the line, you’ll have to earn it

Just one! 
I begged the Muse. 
 
You again? 
Always the same 
 
schtick. 
If you want the line, 
 
you’ll have to earn it. 
How? 
 
Write about something 
besides younger men, 
 
Muse said. 
Think of Elizabeth Bishop, 
 
who spent twenty years 
on “The Moose.” 
 
No! I won’t! 
Too late. I was already 
 
minding my 
mousse 
 
au 
chocolat. 
 

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