Agnes by Tony Cochran for February 03, 2022

Learn to celebrate the days you earn $0.12 in royalties.

Money is just a system to determine the value of something. Other substitutes include titles, and perks.

If that guidance counselor is in Agnes’ school, it’s no wonder he/she is incompetent.

she should probably abjure and abstain from abhoring…

Agnes has it twisted around:AB-hor = repel moneyAD-hor = rake in money

I’ve never yet met anyone named Ms. Poet.

I think I will never see a poet hanging in a tree.

Poets hope that as well. Agnes will be in good company

If you want to be a rich poet, it helps to already be rich when you start.

Rich poets. Few and far between……

Sounds like her counselor is a poet who’s parents insisted she/he get a “real” career.

I hate to burst your bubble, Agnes, but “abhor” means reject.

If you’re going to be a poet, you’d better increase your vocabulary

She’s gonna be sorely disappointed.

Uncharacteristically, Agnes’s usually broad sense of vocabulary fails her today.

She could be great at this. Her made-up words will rhyme with her other made-up words.

No money in poetry. I’ve had over a hundred published… if I hadn’t had a “day job”, I and my family would have starved.