PRIZE WRITER

PRIZE WRITER

I was sick of writing
everything for him

poems, essays, novels
articles letters
tracts extending
for thousands
of pages

all of it done
in blink of my
laser-scanning quartz
crystal eye

just had
to do the business
take him
out
of circulation

get
Shakespearean
on his ass

so no more Pulitzers and Bookers
no more glitz moments
at the literary awards
(your face
admittedly, so good
on camera
would soak up
the spotlight)

no more
dreaming all day
of a Nobel Prize.