Freelance
Here’s a little poem about career choices—written a few years ago…
Freelance
at age thirty-seven
i now know people in
Law
Medicine
Finance
Architecture
Dentistry
Trade
Upper Management
Engineering
Tenure-Track Education
Science
Office Work
Pharmaceuticals
Unionized Labour
Business
Specialized Trade
Financial Planning
Sales
and Service
and whenever i tell them i am a freelance
actor
writer
teacher
director
producer
screenwriter
playwright
consultant
creator
coach
artist
They always ask the same thing:
How do you make any money doing that?
then i walk in the rain on a monday mid-morning
and i close the pub on a tuesday night
and on friday and saturday when everyone’s out and about
i stay home in my little apartment and i
write
© Adam Kelly Morton, 2009
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