Absolutely agreed, Edward. I did try to sound the note that even a hundred bucks makes a difference to my household economy and I am really, really grateful. But still. For the time I take I need to either make a little more or go get some sort of clerical or food service job in my kids' schools and make a consistent hourly wage.

Thank you for reading and good luck with poetry!! That's always been a challenging form of writing to make it on--but when poems are beautiful they sing like nothing else, don't they?