Quantity Affects Quality
There is no sense trying to be famous. Best, the short route, less numerous. Try to be.
"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."--Stephen Jay Gould
Quantity Affects Quality
She asked me about
my readership
and I replied
”A good dozen
on a good week.”
She looked a little taken aback.
I could see her
mumbling inside to herself
”How we gonna sell that?”
The deal fell through
and I tucked my dream
of being an internet millionaire
under my pillow
in the spare bedroom where
I sleep when
I know I’ll wake up
with a really big hangover.
I’m not a numbers guy.
I’ll eat rice when I want a meal
of 2,000 something.