La Vie Boheme

I found this quote in one of my old journal entries

I was looking through my old journal entries from three years ago. I used to post a poetry quote with each entry. I found this one, and it made me laugh, because now I understand it. I didn't then.

O God, O Venus, O Mercury, patron of thieves,
Lend me a little tobacco-shop,
or install me in any profession
Save this damn'd profession of writing,
where one needs one's brains all the time.
--From The Lake Isle, Ezra Pound