hold up, now,
don’t you start,
i’m here for poets—
don’t you have the heart?—
zero poems written,
zero poems ever read?—
all with fantastic emotions,
like the one about the walking dead—
the great swelling imagery
of mangled flesh torn apart,
so, wanna hop over to insta—
for my commissioned pixel art?
© 2026 Tristan Robert Lange. All rights reserved.
First published on tristanrobertlange.com, August 17, 2026.
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Author:
Tristan Robert Lange (
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- Comment from author about the poem: Part of the Wait. What?!? collection. A huge thank-you to the fearless moderators who protect poetry communities from accounts that use generic comments as unsolicited advertisements rather than genuinely participating in the reading and sharing of poetry.
- Category: Humor
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- Users favorite of this poem: Carlos Alberto BUSTILLOS, Syd
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C!ooeee Mr Hunt! lol. Why that name? WCAT!
Orchi, the Hunt family has expanded! Mikey handles unsolicited advertising, poor Uric manages customer relations, and Pa…ahem…Richard collects the commission. Why? You already know…WCAT! 💸🎨🤣🙏
Tristan this one caught in the craw. I have had so many commercial artists private message me. Also some say they have read the poems. If they do I say thank you and leave it at that. I know a person that is an artist and has offered to do art for free for me but I don't want to take advantage and I often feel that poetry is better without art that sets a preconception. On the other hand I understand that they have to make a living and why not approach potential customers on their home ground. A subject well addressed my friend.
Exactly, Soren. Artists deserve to earn from their work, but honesty matters. A direct introduction is one thing…the same generic praise posted to 86 separate poets’ accounts within one minute as bait is another. I also understand your hesitation about pairing poems with visuals, since an image can shape the reader’s experience before the words have room to work. I am a visual person and choose to use them most of the time, but that sometimes leads to the picture being evaluated more than the poem. So there is a real tradeoff there, for sure. Thank you, my friend. I much appreciate you. 💸🎨🤣🙏
You are most welcome Tristan, I want to be clear that I have nothing against art be it visual or music with words. It is a personal choice and if I were a song writer I am sure that I would have paired some of my work with music for more power and emotion but it is a personal coice of mine given my own limitations and not wanting to put someone else's work to bolster mine. In fact I have included a couple of my own drawings on some of my old poems, it didn't do much to pull in readers.
No worries at all, Soren. I understood you what you were saying and never thought you were dismissing visual art or music. We simply make different choices about how our work meets the reader, and I respect yours completely, my friend. 🖤🙏🦇🐦⬛
Tristan, during my six plus years on this site, in all that time I have only recieved one such offer. A lukewarm response at best. Why am I being so neglected?
Further, it strikes me that you do very good and interesting artwork yourself, so don't be a scarypoo and become worried about the opposition....🙃😂
🤣😂🤣🤣 You got me! Breaking the eleventh commandment: Thou shalt not covet thy neighborly artist’s poetry site customer grabs! 🤣 All jokes aside, though, my issue is not with artists earning money or promoting their work. It is with accounts that contribute nothing to the poetry community, paste identical praise across dozens of poems within a minute flat, and then pivot to an unsolicited sales pitch. That is advertising disguised as engagement…and that is where this little jab is aimed. As for the lack of solicitations, no worries, Dave. Next one I will be sure to send your way! 🤣 💸🎨🤣🙏
This has a sharp, damn funny jab at the commercialization of poetry spaces and the rush to turn every emotion into content. The “zero poems written, zero poems ever read” alongside the commissioned pixel art is a great little punchline about people selling the image of poetry without bothering with the poetry.
Much appreciated, Thomas! You understood exactly where the blade was aimed. Artists deserve to earn from their work, but community should not be treated as camouflage for a sales pitch. The absurdity simply begged to be immortalized. 🤣💸🎨🤣🙏
Hello again Tristan, I know who this is about. I did actually check the Instagram profile out, but didn't interact. I had a similar comment from the same person on another poetry website too.
- Syd 🍄
Sometimes you’d think it’s boys and boys he business keeps going automatically once phished. But I’m paranoid to start off with.
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