Contested!

A shadow stalks the poet:
where and when and how
will you win next?

Query lecher
orange agent 
and a contest.

Submit!
Get your name
out there (there).

It's a purposeful pro
jection: a face and con
sciousness, for sale.

Attain the price:
glory supply 
for intelligent demand

or else,
obscurity's dust
will cover your lonely oeuvre. 

Does the insurance salesman
the hedge fund jockey
see the world's lamplight differently?

Poet aspirant,
perspire, yes,
but reconsider

your fight
                     to flop
                                    ahead.