I am not a brand.

To be a successful writer (or artist, or anything that involves money, relationship, or consistency), we are now supposed to think of ourselves as a brand.

For years I have helped other artists and creatives to try to craft their image, but I can’t seem to do it for myself. And the poet and the activist in me wonders if that kind of thinking is part of the problem… Corporations are now people — and people have to think of themselves as corporations.

I am a human being.