NYC public school teacher ditches her classroom to pursue a lifelong dream — and is making bank

She’s a poet — and she’s always known it.

A NYC public school teacher ditched her day job to pursue her lifelong dream of becoming a bard — and now writes poems for strangers on the streets of the Big Apple.

Shana Roark, 26, sets up a table and a 1969 Olivetti Lettera 32 typewriter on sidewalks on Central Park South and in Williamsburg and sells verses on any subject for $55 a pop.

On a good day, she writes 30 poems and pockets $1,650…

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