It’s My Job

It’s my job to read
your poetry

Some people go to
business meetings

I talk to you
meaning I read
feel
digest

Respond

(Aside from purely
domestic dealings
some insist is my
pro-position

...and I suppose it is...)

I don’t like being
constantly attacked for it

But the situation I’m in
seems as indifferent
or worse

to my choice

as though I dance
upon a pole

for nightly tips...