In my Opinionated Opinion

You know those address labels,

 non-profit organizations send you to guilt you into giving

them money for their good cause? 

The address labels with your name embossed on them.

 The ones younever ordered, but they keep showing up

 in your mailbox, like it or not?

By now, if you have not round-filed them you have hundreds,

perhaps thousands—more than any one person could ever use.

Had you given into the guilting, you would have spent hundreds

of dollars for them all.

The whole proposition was disturbing to me so I decided a long

time ago that I wasn’t going to pay for what I don’t need,

 didn’t order and since I already pay my taxes,

 I have already helped subsidize all these non-profits,

 who write everything off, anyway.

These labels aren’t exactly FREE, but possession is 9/10s of the law

and clearly they are printed with my name and address,

 so it is logical to believe that they belong to me!

 Ever since that light bulb moment, I use them with impunity 

and have no regrets.

(After all I have had friends that work for “non-profits” who made more

money than me and had way more benefits.) How dare those non-profits

try to guilt people into paying again and again for what our tax dollars

have already  paid.

The unmitigated gall…

Raintreepoet, grinching.

Neither Shakespeare Nor I can compete with you

This on the occasion of a fellow writer wanting me to listen to him read what he had written, when my mind was other places. He was miffed. I was miffed right back.

 Rebuttal on ten note cards...

1. Okay! Here is my defense: There are 64 plots to man's narrative since the beginning of human history.

2.Chances are, if you talk to me in "plot" you will hit one of the 64, which might cause me to respond with, "That's familiar."

3. Pardon me, for having been an English Literature major and having heard those plots more than a few times.

4. I believe I have already told you that I am a "character driven story" fan and that "plot" is pedestrian to me.

5. So, "Mr. I am Offended because you aren't listening to me", hear this: If I wasn't compelled to listen that should be a clue!

6. Perhaps your plot drivel/driven narrative is not beguiling me!

7. You, as a writer have no right to manipulate or bully your reader

8. when she happens not to be entertained. The fact of the matter is, newly declared writer, if you write with the need for always positive feedback

9.  you will forever be waiting as a thirsty man for water. Write because you love it,

10. because it is rewarding in and of itself or cease to write at all. If the act of writing is not self-fulfilling for you, you were't meant to be a writer---but with that dogged attitude, you will probably be published long before me! 

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