You should go into the card business.
Just say your clever little things
as the punchlines
on the inside of cards
and you could make a mint!

Or a radio writer.
There haven’t been popular radio shows
for a couple of years now.
That’s a field you could enter
and conquer.
I have faith in you.

You could write the Great American Novel
or, perhaps,
a Great American Novel
or, at least,
write about a Novel Great American.
Anything’s possible
if you put your mind to it.

You could sell your ideas
for hundreds of thousands of dollars
or trade them for stocks
or offer them as donations for the poor
and give those suckers a reason to live again.
You can do it.

You can do it.
Just try.
For god’s sake
try something!