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...the fact that it is very difficult, if not impossible, to monetize poetry allows for poetry to remain subversive. Poetry has the benefit of being outside economic systems.
Is that a fancy way of saying that poetry doesn't make money? Yes.
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— Jul 05, 2026 09:09AM
Is that a fancy way of saying that poetry doesn't make money? Yes.
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Listen, friends, I am tired of violence, I am tired of hatred, I am tired of the antihero being made into a hero! I am tired, I am tired, I am tired. But you know what isn't tired?
Poetry.
— Jul 05, 2026 09:20AM
Poetry.
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But it's more than that: Poetry is meant to be free, it's meant to be given, its meant to travel one poem at a time, like pollen from a tree floating through the air to make more trees. Poems travel that same way. And because of that, they remain sacred, unbothered by trappings of the usual oppressive systems.
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Oh yes absolutely Courtney, poetry must be free!Love your image of the pollination of poems!