Self Interview

Blog - How does it feel to be a poet-broker?
 
Me -   Which part of me are you asking?

Blog - Whichever part is responsible for this interview.

Me -  It feels good and better and better as time goes on.

Blog - Can you tell the readers why that is.

Me -  I realize that everyone is searching for a brand, or even struggling to establish one, and mine already exists. People know           who Poetbroker is.  I myself may not know sometimes,but others do.

Blog - Please share with us what is that brand or identity?

Me  -  A poetbroker is a real estate broker who uses poetry to advance his deals, and also delivers public poems  to large                      audiences at business conferences and political gatherings. 

Blog -  I see. So its not simply a matter of being a real estate broker and poet?

Me-    No not at all. There have been truly world class poets such as Wallace Stevens, or even TS Eliot, who earned a living as business persons without mingling art with their means of earning a living.

Blog -  You have been around a large number of real estate brokers and likewise poets. Do you recognize any patterns of                      similarities and or differences?  

Me -    There are strong similarities in personal motivation and in job environment. 

Blog - Many people who been around both, would take issue with that.

Me   - Both are greedy but for different things. A poet wants attention while a broker wants money. The environment has similarities in that both are on what Laurel Ann Bogen calls the border, trying to bridge a gap. A poets gap, between insight and expression, is resolved on paper. The broker straddles the border between clients and closes it in escrow. 

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