Vocation
John G. Young, M.D.
"What do you do?"
"I’m a poet."
"Oh, you’re the first live poet I’ve met.
Isn’t it hard to make a living that way?"
"Yes."
"But then how do you make it?"
" I don’t…as a poet."
"Then what do you do?"
"I am a poet."
"Well, then how do you make a living?"
"I practice psychiatry."
"Why didn’t you say so in the first place?"
"I’m a poet."