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Last year during a zero dollar period I wrote this cardboard sign "Rhymes for Dimes". It worked and I had to write a lot of these to back up the performance.
I was out of a house about 3 years and was evolving upon an old pan handling habit (and strangely knowledge from my former marketing major) after I was housed and couldn't make ends meet on part time. I felt like I had to give a little something back so I did the rhyme thing, got a lot of positive feedback for it and kept doing it the whole spring summer and fall. I usually go for long rhyme chains with some sort of message behind them which vents about my situation in a humorous way in exchange for, well basically anything, even if its just a smile or a crooked look.
This year I'm trying to be more money smart and keep the performance to the local coffee shops poetry slam and open mic. I have small entrepreneurial goals and will relegate the paid performance to a suggestion on the tip jar for a while. The going business plan is street and fresh market pretzels :)
Alternitavely my life goes to the shitter again and I have something to lean on thats slightly less soul killing than the depressed approach to panhandling.
Anyways I trailed off there but my point was that its fascinating how different skills can develop together in weird ways.
One thing I learned is that it only starts to really work when you stop caring about the money outright. I remember one of the first times I went out juggling to busk, where I made like $5-6, while waiting for the bus back, a young woman came up to me and asked for two dollars to see her mom in the hospital. Well, I looked up and over, and the hospital she said was right there, two blocks away, so I tried to help her by telling her how to get there, then offered to carry her even, but she kept wiggling out of it and saying she needed to catch the bus there. Well, I thought I was being scammed, so I huffed off, to see a man around the corner look disappointed at me while putting a large bill away.
Karma is real, both artificial and divine. The world and linear causation are illusions, where consciousness is the base substance of reality, but not like pansychism that says rocks n trees are conscious, but rather we are pockets of consciousness called monads that get woven between parallel universes to facilitate our Karma. I can explain the mechanisms behind this to some detail, but the thing I'm saying is, what you put out determines what comes back to you. Your intention is the only thing you have direct control over, and you entangle yourself in every moment because of it.
Karmic entanglement = quantum entanglement.
I feel a big karmic debt for all of it and always pay forward when I get an opportunity but it would take years at this point.
Back to the topic of meter, how's this attempt?
You might have seen a sign of mine
It says this line, its "Rhymes for Dimes"
Was Written fast with ill design
So hastily with little time.
And made with cardboard slicked with grime
I call at strangers with a mime
Then I am paid a Single dime
and I climb up from my long sit
Get up to play the silly bit
Put out the cigarette I had lit
Then chime a prime brief rhyme sublime
And what had I received for this crime?
mountains of lime coloured slime covered dimes from my fountain of rhymes!
You might have seen a sign of mine
Says this line - “Rhymes for Dimes”
Was Written fast w/ divine design
So hastily and with little bit of time
Made w cardboard slicked w grime
Call @ strangers by means o mime
Then, I be paid w/ a Singlular dime
And I climb up from my longest sit
Getting up to thus play the silly bit
Putting out the cigarette I'd just lit
Chime brief prime rhyme sublime
& wat did I receive for this crime?
Mountains of lime coloured slime covered dimes from my fountain of rhymes!
You can spruce it up even more, I just did it fast. You've got the spirit, and thst is the fuel that will carry you the distance.