Is Medium a crook in this day and age? Yes!
Space and time are not enough for five U.S. bucks.
Maybe the future CEO should wear a dress
Enveloped in some of the writers’ sweat in flux.
Dandelions on the homepage instead of M’s
Insinuating moneys that never come home
Unless the dollars are well hidden in the hems
Methinks Medium is acting like Ancient Rome.
A read is not a read. What? Until you reach Hades
Cornered at the bottom of some screen feeling well.
Reading and writing with glitches galore and aides
Overreaching replies from a bot that can swell.
O past Medium when reads’ claps were counted right
Kicking and screaming at the night with a flashlight.
About the Creator
Patrick M. Ohana
A medical writer who reads and writes fiction and some nonfiction, although the latter may appear at times like the former. Most of my pieces (over 2,200) are or will be available on Shakespeare's Shoes.
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Miss Persephone's Manual to a Seemingly Ordinary Life
Miss Persephone was found at the dining table, her blue eyes swollen, her tears arriving and retreating like the tides of the ocean. Earlier that day, her family had visited her in the retirement home where she had lived for eight years. It was her eightieth birthday.
By Imola Tóth3 days ago in Fiction
Comments (1)
Aww, Patrick. Looks like you're disappointed with the new changes on Medium. Hope you're happy on Vocal! Nice poem, by the way. Loved that you could communicate how you feel in this piece.