The ideal audience size for a poet is one. <br />Direct from me to you. No watchers. <br />Whispering together in the privacy of our minds. <br />When poems are performed therefore <br />Before an audience of many <br />The poet should instruct the company <br />To ignore each other. <br />This performance is for you alone.<br /><br />Stewart McKenzie<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/rtfm-17-po-em/
