"What, we ask, is life without a touch of poetry in it?"

The Pirate King (Pirates of Penzance, Gilbert & Sullivan)

I've never been a fan of poetry.

Several Nobel Laureate poets announced today that the Internet was no place for poetry. "Books," they said, "are the only venue suitable for such efforts." They decried the spread of Evil Technology, which sucks the life from carefully crafted verse. No self-respecting poet would encourage the proliferation of rhyme and meter on the Internet.

"Good!" said I to my radio.

"What we ask is life - without a touch of poetry in it!"

Craig (with a little 'poetic license')