Aug 14
We should legalize drugs, and make poetry illegal. The Mafia would have to make money by running speakeasy underground poetry slams, smuggling Faber & Faber books from Europe, and offering schoolkids a free stanza or two to get them hooked. Kids would all be writing poetry in order to be cool.
August 14th, 2008 at 21:51 +0000
The UK appears to be in the lead in the global war on poetry.