1.5b poetry: satire

"Poetry is a Hoax", by Jane Kenyon [Arts & Sciences, Humor & Satire, Poetry & Poets]
We are in the midst of the greatest creative
era in our nation’s history,
but poets who deserve
record invitations to appear

at next month’s Folio can’t get paid,
or even printed for that matter.
Poetry books are selling at a discount

to the fool’s silver match.
The poets need not rely
on the marketplace for their bread,
the wait is too long and the market is

too crowded.
The much needed restorations

are held up by Kodak,
the restorations are held up
by the identical tissue
known as persistence,
the tissue is held up by

believe in me,
what I believe is more interesting,

be more like me, my technical review indicates

you cannot hold me, I am never alone,
if you attempt to duplicate
your ideas you will

confuse the issue. The ideas will

diffuse through the atmosphere

in direct ratio to any gas.
Each idea that is conceived and

all but carried to fruition, will


be accounted in the calculator as 1% of

total, I did not hold you

in such high regard. I apologize

for being so alarming.