He will not play the game —
the publishing, artistic,
strangling game. He has
read of those who wrote
and wrote and wondered
if their effort would bring
a few bucks and a place
in a magazine.
Their artistic agony
was great.
Just think about that — the
creative, artistic ones
await their fate
at the hands of the ones
who are in business to
make a buck
and not just break
even. He said, “Self publish
if you can afford it, and let
the public decide as they
did when Walt Whitman
said something like, Leaves
of Grass will be published
by me and we
will await our fate.