When finger snaps,
hand claps,
clapped erasers –
When the press release,
the product tease,
the String Cheese Incident –
When New York Times
three equals two:
you and me
Need poetry.
Dave Read
Ars poetica
The meteoric rise in the academic sanctioning of poets since the 1970s has made "ars poetica" one of the things never far from my mind.