Buy Me Love by Martha Cooley

Author:Martha Cooley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Red Hen Press

She spun her glass by its stem.

Your question makes me wince.

Why?

Because I haven’t been writing for a while.

Can I ask if you’ve published anything?

Yes. A chapbook of prose-poems, a while back, and some poems in literary magazines. Nothing recent, though. You can’t make a living as a poet, in case you’re wondering. I write and edit all the time for my freelance jobs. But not poems.

I haven’t read much poetry, I confess. Not that I don’t enjoy it, at least sometimes. But I find it kind of intimidating.

Lots of people do. In school you’re told to look for meanings. What matters first is sound, though. The poem’s music.

I can’t even imagine how you’d actually write one . . .

Well, I can’t imagine doing a backflip.

Ah, that’s not so hard. I think you should get back to writing—poems, I mean, not whatever it is you do for money. You come from an artistic family, why waste your genes? I bet your father’s wondered what you’re up to. Like, whether you became some sort of artist, too. Don’t you think?

She patted her forehead with her napkin. Full fathom five thy father lies. Had anyone but Bruno been there for the lowering of Walter’s coffin? Anyone read a poem or sung a song?

Honestly, Roy, I have no idea.

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