Hi Fellow Fabulists!
Creating my future one piece of truth at a time.
I told somebody the truth about something that I usually lie about, and it felt dizzyingly wonderful.
In the scheme of the universe, it’s a minor victory, but in the framework of my life, it feels like I’ve leveled up.
The barista at the Starbucks drive-through window was making the compulsory small talk while I waited for my order. She asked me what I did, and without stopping to censor myself, I declared that I was a poet who made haiku comics.
Her eyes lit up at the unexpected response, and she asked how to find my work.
This past week, I’ve felt less like a fraud than usual, mostly due to your tremendous support. Many of you requested haiku and were quite generous in your tips.
I made enough to pay for my annual Microsoft Office ransom fee just from writing poems and making art!
Here are some of the custom poems along with the requests:
Request: A poem for a student heading off to college to study astrophysics
Request: A poem about the courage it takes to write a memoir
Request: A poem that uses the word peanut
Request: A poem about the sea or the moon (or both?)
Be the weird you want to see in the world!
Cheers,
Jason
P.S. I’m going to continue to virtually busk by writing custom haiku for anyone that wants one. Feel free to share this with your friends, enemies, or frenemies. To get a custom haiku, all someone has to do is email me by replying here or sending me a message at jason@weirdopoetry.com. You pay what you want after you get your haiku, including paying $0 guilt-free. I want to fill the world with poetry (and being able to pay bills with poetry money makes that a lot easier :)
it's so easy and so liberating when you just tell the truth.
Whoop! Glad you were able to pay for your Microsoft ransom through poetry.
Curious... why do you let Microsoft rob you? Google Suite = FREE! Is there something Microsoft offers that I've been too righteously biased to see? (I hate Microsoft).
R x