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the price of art

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Is it a silver lining or simply a sliver of silver coating?
If I share, cash in my craft, shall all of its dignity crash and burn?
Will its beauty, purity, truth be spurned, turned upon its head?

Will it be free, shall it be mine anymore?  Will it be just about them?
Shall I be soaked in streams I should not, do not wish to swim?
Can I still be myself?
Can art at a price and something earned
Still be called it?

There shall be limitations
There shall be shackles
When you work with jackals…
How much shall they alter bite
Invite distortion?

Shall it turn into something else?
Will selling out, sacrifice the soul
I strived so long to keep and nurture?

If I go global, enter the eyes of the people
And the editing department

Can I still call pure?
Am I unable to remain a sovereign with a quill?

As it is now, it is greater than any price…
But still gifts are there to exploit…
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