Great Regulars: The fuss is that these poets who insulate

themselves consciously (you can’t blame the subconscious ones) are often the same poets complaining about the pathetically small audience for poetry.

Here’s the deal. You can’t consciously insulate yourself with senselessness and then bemoan the fact that people don’t read poems--the poems you are purposefully excluding them from. You cannot have it both ways.

from Good Times Weekly: Poetry Corner: Poetry for the People

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