I’m Folding Up my Tent

of academia:

I am a two-dollar roadside poet,

that’s all I’ll ever be.

 

I’ve studied with the great

minds of literature.

 

I discovered

I am the pig

In the phrase:

Pearls before Swine,

 

I have tried but I cannot

See what others plainly see.

 

If you want me to write

About homelessness and soda bottles

please put two dollars in my jar.

 

I’ll do my best for you,

but whatever I’m saying

will only be about homelessness and soda bottles,

though you are free to see whatever you can divine.