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Tuesday 4 August 2020

'FOR ART'S SAKE' - a poem for artists and creatives during lockdown

FOR ART’S SAKE


Let’s raise a glass and make a shrine

to all the content dumped online

since Covid came and made us see

we need to offer stuff for free. 


Those webinars and videos

and footage from our gigs and shows

now frankly can’t be done without. 

Let’s give them gratis! Hand them out!


For can’t you tell? The multitude

just craves our craft; it would be rude

to make them pay for what we do!

And so our skill we cough and spew


and splash across the internet.

This simple truth let’s not forget:

to charge a smidgen would be rash


for the world needs our art

more than we need its cash.


So let’s raise a glass and make a shrine

to all that content dumped online.

It lies inert and ossifies

but, unlike us, it never dies.