Milking A Dead Cow

Nobody is interested in fresh ideas anymore, they just want remakes and reboots

There will be yet another old movie or television show that is coming back soon

Just because a play, a poem or a movie script is brand new

Does not mean that this new material isn't really good too

It really doesn't matter if you have something unique or interesting to say

The establishement really wants to hear it repeated the same way

You see it in the movies and you see it on the television shows

A movie or television show comes back that was popular so many years ago

You also see it on those singing competion shows

Singers trying to make a name for themselves singing a song another artist wrote

The performance may be very well done, it may even be special

But it far from groundbreaking and it's not even close to being original 

Maybe it's come time for me to finally put down this pen

It seems that the only creative writers getting any work today are the ones who are dead

The dead writers have the fast track and they get their work shown for free

While in order for me to submit my work, I must pay a submission fee

The dead writers work gets put on the stage under the bright lights

While I continually get weighed down with strict submission guidelines

In the theatre today for all of the new work, there just doesn't seem to be enough room

The theatre today would rather produce plays adapted from old movies and cartoons

The writers who have been dead for hundreds of years are the ones who are thriving

While my artisitic dreams are on life support and are inevitably dying

The entertainment industry is not really interested in the here and now

They are just contempt with Milking A Dead Cow 

From Rhymes With A Reason
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