Poetry Used to Be a Career

Nowadays in the age of the internet Poetry is published online for free Back in the age of Emily Dickinson You got paid for all your poetry It is hard to get poetry printed now Even harder to get paid as well Readers can look it up on Google And possibly steal it, plagiarize it At this point, the only way to sell Is to write a whole book of poems But even that seems to be a challenge In the age of Kindles and Nooks Poetry used to be a career or job Where people actually read poems in books or magazines or newspapers But print is becoming outdated now It would take a huge fan of poetry To really sell what you have to say Similar to a music fan buying a vinyl If they were fans and really love them