That's your platform.
You are a subject-matter expert (SME)
on not having a platform. You are mired
in quicksand. The more you struggle,
the faster you go under. You give a lecture at
a writers conference and one person comes.
You publish a pamphlet and it sinks like a stone.
It is vaporized. Mist. Steam. You boiled off.
You overheated. Like a clapped-out Key West car
with a bad radiator. You blew out a flip-flop.
You swallowed a pop-top. Jimmy Buffett doesn't live
in Key West anymore. David Allan Coe. Thank God
I've still got a good pair of brogans.