Advice from One Romantic to Another

They think you have to suffer for your art,
to make it great. You need to sob out loud,
to rip the vessels from the bleeding heart
they think you have. To suffer for your art
is de rigeur. So play the starving part
and milk the pity oozing from the crowd.
They think you have to suffer. For your art
to make it big, you need to sell it loud!

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