They say
you work to live. They say
you live to work. They say
life is work,
work is life.
Without work, life is not life.
They don’t say that,
but you’ve worked
your way up
to that understanding.
Katerina Stoykova is the author of Between a Bird Cage and a Bird House (University Press of Kentucky) and The Poet's Guide to Publishing: How to Conceive, Arrange, Edit, Publish and Market a Book of Poetry (McFarland). Katerina is the founder and senior editor of Accents Publishing.