R
Robert Harrison
Guest
What need have I of worldly wealth?
Collecting royalties from published work.
Works, which finish upon someone's shelf
Accumulating cobwebs and Nubian dessert.
What need have I of publisher's demands?
That I should be required to alter this and that.
Why allow myself to be shackled in iron bands
Then have to be subservient at the drop of a hat?
The world is at my fingertips and what I type
I give to those who read a free gift, no charge,
But to enjoy or dislike that which I lovingly write
For I am as free as a bird an ambassador at large.
What need have I of worldly wealth?
Money cannot buy feelings that are within us.
Stats prove our poems to be in the best of health
So I say to the publishers "I have nothing to discuss".
Wealth I have to be able to express my feelings
Wealth I have to be able to express my mind
Wealth I have to be able to give some healing
Wealth I have to be able to give back in kind.
Collecting royalties from published work.
Works, which finish upon someone's shelf
Accumulating cobwebs and Nubian dessert.
What need have I of publisher's demands?
That I should be required to alter this and that.
Why allow myself to be shackled in iron bands
Then have to be subservient at the drop of a hat?
The world is at my fingertips and what I type
I give to those who read a free gift, no charge,
But to enjoy or dislike that which I lovingly write
For I am as free as a bird an ambassador at large.
What need have I of worldly wealth?
Money cannot buy feelings that are within us.
Stats prove our poems to be in the best of health
So I say to the publishers "I have nothing to discuss".
Wealth I have to be able to express my feelings
Wealth I have to be able to express my mind
Wealth I have to be able to give some healing
Wealth I have to be able to give back in kind.