ARTISTIC IMPULSE

Beautiful songwriter
in the lonely cafe:
your voice is so lovely,
so sincere
when you sing the classics.
Continue, please.
Entertain us
with the canon.
Keep singing the songs of others.
Stick with the hits.

The material you are composing yourself
or written by the girlfriend
who subsidizes your career
with her job on Water Street
is not something we need to hear
ever again.

You are very pretty
and mildly accomplished
with late seventies folk rock.
You have found something
you can do
and do well.
Some people
can wait a lifetime
and still fail
in that regard.

Don’t push your luck.