title: Under the Snug Blue Covers: Poems
author: Steve D'Arms
description: Steve D'Arms is a native of Syracuse, NY. He is a graduate of Ithaca College, where he began writing poetry in 2002.
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  # A Profitable Weakness
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### George Gissing
  
  
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  Only to the few and the very fortunate of men is it granted to earn a
  livelihood by the exertion of their best powers. Men in general owe sustenance
  to the meaner of their faculties, often enough to the basest possibility that
  is in them; and, even so, find the effort no light one. As a singular instance
  of something between the two, of a man who found his profit in the cultiva