A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published.
The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they'd word something or how they'd inflect it.
We're not children here. The law is-how should I put it? A convenience. Or a convenience for some people, and an inconvenience for other people.