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Watch This Space.

New blog to start soon.

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Vote as if your life or someone else’s life depends on it. It does.

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Found him becalmed behind the campus center

Made sure I received his permission to take the photo.

Moths are camera shy and have been taken advantage of by unscrupulous paparazzi…..

Waited until I made sure he was okay

Watched him flutter away.

What makes him a moth and not a butterfly. Color, appearance, size? Point of view? Tradition?

So beautiful. He/she was about three inches across wing tip to wing tip.

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#covfefe #resist #poetry #poet #poets #writing #work #economies

#scale #breach #minimum wage #art

Here goes. Working on this for a literary magazine theme issue. Really Rough. But feedback would be great. Quite possible that somebody could plagiarize this but it’s not that good yet and they’d have to spend all their spare time trying to place it.

Disconomies of Scale-Jane Sellman c2017

Toothpicks so cheap because we make so many like

 peppermints and matches.

 Hell, they give these things away.

 Who hasn’t taken some peppermints from the dish bearing the check?

 Thank you for spending $55.72 in our restaurant today and here are two freakin’ peppermints that cost a penny apiece to make and that we purchased from a company for $0.03 a piece.

 And these refreshing minty bits are a sign that the restaurant gives an F

about you and your chances of getting a kiss at the door.

 You believe I’m in breach of ethics telling you what the gift of a peppermint costs. They give away match books too – some people collect them.

 Would you collect them if you didn’t get them for free at a French bistro or a Rhode Island casino.

 My point is just this: economies of scale. The more I produce, the more I can lower the price.

So cars are expensive and pre-green consciousness light bulbs are cheap.

 By this logic might we explain why so many of us make so little, $-wise.

 If there were only 200 counter people in the entire universe, they would probably make $45.55 an hour but there are so many many many many many many many many people standing behind a counter

 and having people tell them they want the chicken sandwich but no cheese and no mayonnaise but a slice of tomato and mustard but the mustard should be on the side and extra pecans, please.

 That we are defeated by economies of scale. It applies to housekeepers and babysitters, tutors and teachers, artists. Just so many of us that we come pretty cheap.

 One day, we should all stay home and watch TV or read Tolkien or feed the squirrels and laugh at the thought of Papa John having to make all those pizzas and answer the phone and make the deliveries.

 It might even make the evening news, if the kid who makes the coffee run and the women who type the copy decide to break the strike.

[yourcrankyauntjane]

Here goes. Working on this for a literary magazine theme issue. Really Rough. But feedback would be great. Quite possible that somebody could plagiarize this but it’s not that good yet and they’d have to spend all their spare time trying to place it.

Disconomies of Scale-Jane Sellman c2017

Toothpicks so cheap because we make so many like

 peppermints and matches.

 Hell, they give these things away.

 Who hasn't taken some peppermints from the dish bearing the check?

 Thank you for spending $55.72 in our restaurant today and here are two freakin’ peppermints that cost a penny apiece to make and that we purchased from a company for $0.03 a piece.

 And these refreshing minty bits are a sign that the restaurant gives an F

about you and your chances of getting a kiss at the door.

 You believe I’m in breach of ethics telling you what the gift of a peppermint costs. They give away match books too – some people collect them.

 Would you collect them if you didn’t get them for free at a French bistro or a Rhode Island casino.

 My point is just this: economies of scale. The more I produce, the more I can lower the price.

So cars are expensive and pre-green consciousness light bulbs are cheap.

 By this logic might we explain why so many of us make so little, $-wise.

 If there were only 200 counter people in the entire universe, they would probably make $45.55 an hour but there are so many many many many many many many many people standing behind a counter

 and having people tell them they want the chicken sandwich but no cheese and no mayonnaise but a slice of tomato and mustard but the mustard should be on the side and extra pecans, please.

 That we are defeated by economies of scale. It applies to housekeepers and babysitters, tutors and teachers, artists. Just so many of us that we come pretty cheap.

 One day, we should all stay home and watch TV or read Tolkien or feed the squirrels and laugh at the thought of Papa John having to make all those pizzas and answer the phone and make the deliveries.

 It might even make the evening news, if the kid who makes the coffee run and the women who type the copy decide to break the strike.