Too Many Poets

One thing I've noticed since
I began submitting poetry at sixty-three
is that there are far too many poets
in the world, so many in fact that
there ought to be an open season on them
to reduce their numbers before
the forests absolutely fill with them
and there are not enough berries
or muses to go around and it
becomes impossible to drive
from one writing seminar to the next
without catching a would-be laureate
in the headlights or scattering a flock
of unpublished elegists feeding on
some free-verse lyricist limp on the concrete
or some mangled iambic pentametrist
whose extra syllables are strewn
unstressed across the road.


David Simms

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