Please and Thank You

(Thank you to people who sent poems about Alabama, utilize, and spuddle.I will save them all in my Permanent File, in the Real File Folders that Todd and Sangeeta gave me last summer.)

Dear READERS,

In one of the crazy emails I got a while ago someone named Martha said

in an articulate way that referring to her as a Reader

generic and offensive absolutely every word

can generate a response.

I like Readers more than People

but Martha did not.

Dear Readers I can’t force myself to go to one of the

Substack Seminars about Growing Your Audience.

Tell your friends or add their emails to my list.

And as for Selling Things Here

(advised by Austin Kleon)

I don’t but I could and maybe I will.

I have new editions of God is a Tree and Allen Ginsberg (to sell)

and i’ve been thinking of making a Poem t-shirt though

I don’t wear t-shirts but a poem sarong for instance would not

be as popular. (Austin Kleon also suggests that we END

each substack saying Hire Me to Speak. FYI I speak for free.)

xxxxxxx