what should poets do for a living? well, according to Susan Yuzna it sure the hell ain't in the unemployment line. I read this article in today's paper and it has haunted me all day. not Yuzna's plight, I understood her experience of unemployment to be fairly typical of a writer, but the question is whether poets must be teachers to be accredited a poet at all. I know many good writers who are also teachers, but teaching for a living ain't the only option to make a living for a poet. a good friend shuttles to and fro as a part-time assistant instructor at two area community colleges. it is one hell of a way to earn a living. poetry mandates a variety of forms, visions and sounds for it to maintain its health. it follows then that poets must live, work, read and write from many, many variables and attitudes for health. it means poets can, and they do, live and write outside the guild structure of academe. they must: unemployment for anyone, writer or no, fucking sucks.