Market Research Information for Poets (Prompt: It's Too Late Poem)

Egotists!

Narcissists!

Poets!

(Forgive the redundancy.)

After a thorough analysis

of the activity

of this website,

I offer the following

analysis to aid you

in your writing endeavors:

First,

if you want

to maximize

the comment count

for your postings,

make sure that your poems

are no longer

than 22 lines,

which seems to be

the tipping point

for inattention.

Second,

and more important,

please ensure

your submissions

occur before 3pm EST.

This will allow

ample opportunity

for the majority

of site traffic

to view / comment

on your work.

Further analysis exists

to support the hypothesis

that contributors/readers

who visit earlier

in the day

typically do not

revisit the site

later in the day

to read /comment.

Third,

if you are only posting

so that someone

will stroke your ego

and validate your worth

as a writer,

then the previous comment

about time of submission

is irrelevant:

it is already too late.