Make sure all your poems rhyme.
Use all the polishing tools.
Proper meter.
Symbols.
Fair-skinned women -
always tender.
Cause here in the real world .
With -
dying parents,
no book deals,
blisters on hands,
masturbatory hangovers,
morning whiskey breath.
With never enough.
I wait.
Sit, smoke.
Watch a cop drive by.
Wait.
Watch another snake in the leaves.
Wait.
Watch a book return to the earth.
Wait.
