> not sure why some people are reacting negatively to some poetry... As another commenter pointed out, the poem is a parody of a Yeats poem. An an extract from

> not sure why some people are reacting negatively to some poetry... As another commenter pointed out, the poem is a parody of a Yeats poem. An an extract from another of his poems might offer some insight into the reactions... What need you, being come to sense, But fumble in a greasy till And add the halfpence to the pence And prayer to shivering prayer, until You have dried the marrow from the bone