My instinct is to avoid them: <br />The English teacher who shrugs <br />When the sixteen year old is not Frost or Dickinson <br />Who can not see the beauty of either the effort or the interest, <br />The critic who has never penned a line <br />Other than that of criticism, <br />The editor who can find nothing good to say of a failed piece, <br />The parent who will say: <br />'You will never make any money with that stuff' - though probably true - <br />Fails to understand poetry is the thing that helps see us through <br />A land that is a killer of poets.<br /><br />Bill Grace<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-killer-of-poets/
