In but a few years' time <br />when every poet and their critic <br />has the internet on their videophone <br />we can relieve ourselves <br />of our mutual antipathy <br />as demonstrated on poemhunter <br />shit-quick <br />and face to face <br />by taking to the smallest room <br /> <br />and standing on our dignity <br />though seated <br />call up without fear <br />of logorrhoea <br />and take the piss <br />out of each other <br />and having relieved ourselves <br />quick as a slash <br />arise <br />undeterred and <br />flushed with victory <br /> <br />thus <br />leaving more time <br />for rhyme <br />or for better or worse <br />free verse<br /><br />Michael Shepherd<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/0211-infinite-riches-in-a-little-room-unquote/
