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# Starving Artist
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/starving-artist/
- Published: 2022-01-12T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-01-12T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: a starving artist, raw and rude (and chronically misunderstood) refusing money, Hollywood and might does not make right
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

a starving artist, raw and rude  
(and chronically misunderstood)  
refusing money, Hollywood  
and might does not make right

is there sillier cliché  
can't find it in my attaché  
and I've so many, trebuchet  
could send them, day and night

have any doubts? go grab some tea  
and try to price an NFT  
ask Banksy, while he sips Chablis  
the price he paid for fame

in truth, Faust always sells his soul  
for sex, for drugs, for rock and roll  
no, the true artist is no prole  
and knows to play the game

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**Author notes:** https://allpoetry.com/contest/2797037-poetry-and-money