Yesterday a person in publishing
I don’t know her well wrote me and asked
can you tell me who reads your poems
because that would help if you ever want
Marketing. And then she said
as a way of being helpful: would it be possible
for you to describe your Ideal Reader.
I told the person in publishing what I told
Two for the Money roommate agency
a million years ago when I first found
this very same apartment needed a roommate
and the earnest taker of my classified ad
asked me to describe my Ideal Roommate
I said I wanted someone
with a good sense of humor
Age race religion or gender
didn’t matter and the earnest taker
I think his name was Tim said
well you have to narrow it down a little
and I said Ok no aeronautical engineers
and he said well I guess
that’s good enough.
Belly laugh! Thank you!
SO CHARMING!