No, no, no
they do not
do arson, this
Torch is the British
one we Americans
know as Flashlight,
But, who would
open a poem called
Poets Flashlight?
Poets who tell themselves,
their department heads, fellowship-
winnowers, publishers, tutors, mentees,
and the like, that they are in the Art Business,
Are audience for this memo slash
manifesto, which implores
them to first consume what’s beautiful,
then, set it alight.
Dave Read