it’s music flooding room
it’s paint on wall
it’s tension; art hung
is free for me

it’s paint on walls
downtown to see museum
art’s free for me.
think, thoughts are free!

down on the ground
on a floor pillow
thinking thoughts make money
poetry pay for me

on a floor pillow
listening to music flood
poetry pay for me
it is tension; art

Anthony AW (@an__o__) is an LA-based writer. His work has been or will be published in Anti-Heroin Chic, The Cerurove, Drunk Monkeys, FIVE:2:ONE, Kissing Dynamite, Riggwelter Press, & elsewhere. Anthony practiced his writing with Terry Wolverton thru her workshop "Poets at Work" from 2017 to 2018. He currently hosts tête-à-tête, a queer reading series at Book Show in the Highland Park neighborhood.