Passive Production

Like passive aggression, except
For disempowered creatives.

That is, you’re only aggressive
Passively when you lack the strength

To directly compel others
To give you what it is you want.

The powerful are assertive,
In their own minds, not aggressive.

This holds for poetry as well.
The powerful assert themselves.

The disempowered lurk in back,
Seeming to accomplish nothing

But fruiting like mushrooms through dark,
Deliberate lines of attack.