(Grasshopper and the Cricket -- Keats)
The poetry of earth is never read.
Even poets do not read it much.
The love of reading poetry is dead.
Is it poets who have lost the touch
or is it that society has altered?
Should we be bothered no one reads the stuff?
Has something in our evolution faltered
or is it just that we have had enough
and now the world has other arts to please us,
cyber-arts, perhaps, to claim our passion?
Farewell to William Shakespeare and to Jesus?
I swear we have not changed. It's merely fashion.
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