This gives me an idea. As we all know, the U.S. government pays
subsidies to farmers not to grow soybeans, potatoes, whatever. (I
assume other countries have similar programs.) The purpose is to
support the farmers' interests by keeping prices up.
And as we also all know, there is too much poetry being published
of too little value.
So, what could be more logical than to have the government
institute a poetry subsidy -- that is, to pay poets not to write
poems. This means that the supply of poems would be reduced, which
in turn means, by classical free market economics, that they would
be worth more.
Well what do you think? Should I write my Congressperson?
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Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
-- Robert Frost
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