POET'S PAWN SHOP

By Brian Elrix

Laboring to beats of inspiration.

Accompanied by a jazz riff

of poetic eccentricity.

Floundering in a sea of endless rejection

the horizon offering no rescue.

Now you are one of the martyred

enraptured by beauty.

Denied an audience

by academic prejudice

and Ivory tower complicity.

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