Make Like A Hemingway

Please buy my book.
I don’t want to sell
electronics forever.
As my old boss said
more than once, being
an electronic sales rep’s
the hardest easy money
in the world.
Easier than what,
I wonder? Putting
your kids through college
selling chapbooks
at readings? Maybe
if you’re Billy Collins
you can hustle up
a couple of bucks
with a few turns
of the well-worn
phrase, but the rest
of us are still left
sucking hind tit.
Harder than what,
I wonder? Bluestone
slabs quarried
in the Catskills
by a bunch of guys
who can’t hear
each other think,
but feel when
the Beaver Kill
beckons and drop all
to go fly fishing?
Please buy my book
so I can close the cover
on this graphic novel,
buy a Cuban cigar
in Havana and make
like a Hemingway.