Treatments in English Lessons
Yet even poetry is now without
Transcendence. No one wants to read it. No
One pays for it and no one is devout
About it as they were before the glow
Of cinema and television screens.
Forget about the God is dead debate.
Forget about the notion that machines
Could write it and computers might dictate
It. It is now long dead for most except
For weddings, funerals, engagement showers
And such. No man or woman now is swept
Away to love by sonnets. They have lost their powers.
..The poem’s stored in classrooms only. Still
….It’s there—forced down like a cultural pill.