David,
Excellent response. I think we are agreeing. I just like to provoke things now and then.
I have so many ideas about making money with poetry I pee half-way down the street just thinking about them.
I took RF's advice literally, which advised to marry late and get the art in control first. I lived in a house without central heat of any sort for ten years, with missing windows, birds flying in and out, and wrote lots. Now, now I'm not even published by wnyone else other than me. Talk about slow.
Often, people have much more energy and ability than they think they do.
One of my points is that it is fun to think about and plan for combining avocation and vocation without entering before and standing before the 'judgement' of others--career-wise. I don't want prizes, I want to relate to people. Of course, people always judge/like-dislike, but that is the challenge. You demand nothing you get nothing.
TJ
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