Triond’s Nasty Rumor

I arrived here this morning

intent on writing a poem.

My thoughts got detached

first upon the two cent increase

in the earnings. 

Which I really shouldn’t have been

shocked.

Then what startled me more

was one writer’s article

about what he read about Triond.

The article was simply stating

that Triond was selling our

articles to publishers

and then that means

that those publishers

have the sole rights to our stuff.

I was bewildered

and kept reading

as the guy said his goodbyes

as he couldn’t write anymore

for a place that sells our stuff

to other people who

can then call it their’s.

It’s ours, we wrote it.

We have the sole rights to it.

Although Triond has the right

to publish it, advertise and earn

mega bucks in the revenue

and can control it so we only

get diddle pennies in our pockets.

So I left Triond for part of today,

and sent an email in hopes

that the matter gets cleared up

and that it really isn’t true.

Perhaps it was someone else who

stole them and is selling our stuff

away.

He or she should be caught and punished.

I have decided not to write

any more poems of substance

until Triond can respond to me

to relieve my worries.

But I thought this would

be the appropriate poem

on a day like today.

Jennifer Jo Fay

Copyrighted February 3, 2012